04 Dec 1952
Jirocho Rises in Fame
The rise of the famed gambler.
The Elder Sister
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
Top Billed Cast
扇ひろこ Ai Konno
小林旭 Goro Fujikawa
江原真二郎 Junichi Konno
郷鍈治 
内田良平 
岡崎二朗 
葉山良二 
清水将夫 Nobuko Aoki Iwae Arai 
嵐寛寿郎 
榎木兵衛 
弘松三郎 市村博 Seishirō Iwate 
木浦佑三 Yoshihiko Tabata 
高橋明
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