26 Dec 1955
The Man with the Golden Arm
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2005.
Pure Japanese
Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.
Top Billed Cast
ディーン・フジオカ Tateishi Daisuke
蒔田彩珠 Ayumi
別所哲也 
渡辺哲 
村上淳 
Daichi Kaneko 
水間ロン 
ボブ鈴木 
Takayuki Suzuki 
嶋田久作
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