Afraid to Die

Afraid to Die
Directed byYasuzo Masumura
Written byHideo Ando
Ryūzō Kikushima
Produced byMasaichi Nagata
Hiroaki Fujii (planner)
StarringYukio Mishima
Ayako Wakao
Keizo Kawasaki
CinematographyHiroshi Murai
Edited byTatsuji Nakashizu
Music byTetsuo Tsukahara
Distributed byDaiei Film
Fantoma
Release date
  • 23 March 1960 (1960-03-23)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Afraid to Die (からっ風野郎, Karakkaze Yarō, A Man Blown by the Wind) is a 1960 Japanese yakuza film directed by Yasuzo Masumura and starring Yukio Mishima.

Cast

Theme song

"Karakkaze Yarō" (released by King Records on March 20, 1960, in Japan)[1][2][3][4]

Lyrics and vocals: Yukio Mishima
Music and guitar: Shichirō Fukazawa
Arrangement: Koji Eguchi

The soundtrack is now on CD.[2]

References

  1. ^ Sato, Hideaki; Inoue, Takashi (2005). 決定版 三島由紀夫全集・第42巻・年譜・書誌 [Final edition-Yukio Mishima complete works No.42-Biographical sketch and Bibliography] (in Japanese). Shinchosha. p. 891.
  2. ^ a b Sato, Hideaki; Inoue, Takashi (2004). 決定版 三島由紀夫全集・第41巻・音声 CD, Disc No.5 [Final edition-Yukio Mishima complete works No.41- Voice CD, Disc No.5] (in Japanese). Shinchosha.
  3. ^ Mishima, Yukio (1999). Yamauchi, Yukito; Hiraoka, Iichiro; Fujii, Hiroaki (eds.). 三島由紀夫映画論集成 [Collection of Yukio Mishima's Movie theory] (in Japanese). Waizu Shuppan. p. 307.
  4. ^ Sato, Hideaki (2006). 日本の作家100人 人と文学 – 三島由紀夫 [100 Japanese authors – Person and Literature – Yukio Mishima] (in Japanese). Bensei Shuppan. p. 112.


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