The Blossom and the Sword

[Machine Translation] [Toho DVD Masterpiece Selection] Once Scattered Flowers of Love Once Dead Woman. Burned and ran nine inches and five minutes, she bleeds for adulterous love. --Kondo Mine ( Maki Yoko ), a picture book peddler on a train, meets Tanaka Seijiro ( Watari Tetsuya ), a chivalrous man who had stabbed a deputy and escaped. Mine is suspected of being one of them and is heavily interrogated by the police. After being cleared of suspicion, Minoru is released and goes to live with his runaway partner Minoru Ohama ( Kunio Murai ), but Minoru is taken back to his home. Minoru pursues Minoru, but Minoru's feelings for him have cooled. When a hurt Minoru throws herself into the sea, Kinzo Nagata ( Meicho Sogauke ) comes by on his fishing boat. After being rescued, Mine married Kinzo and became a Miss Nagata of the Nagata clan, whose family business was to contract laborers at the port of Kobe. At that time, the rival Kishimoto clan hires an assassin. It was Seijiro who plunged a knife into Kinzo's stomach. Director Yasushi Kato says, "I want to depict a woman with a manly and chivalrous spirit who puts her life on the line and puts her body on the line in her relentless pursuit of true love," and this film is a project that he himself has been working on for seven years.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: trailer(s), stills gallery

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[東宝DVD名作セレクション] 一度は散った愛の花 一度は死んだ女です。燃えて走った九寸五分 不倫の恋に血を流す。――列車の中で絵本を行商していた近藤ミネ (真木洋子) は、代議士を刺して逃げていた侠客・田中清次郎 (渡哲也) に出会った。ミネは仲間だと疑われ警察で激しく尋問される。疑いが晴れて釈放されたミネは駆落ち相手の大浜実 (村井国夫) と暮らすが、実は家に連れ戻されてしまった。ミネは実を追ったが、実の気持ちは冷めていた。傷ついたミネが海に身を投げたところに、長田金造 (曾我廼家明超) が釣り船で通りかかった。助けられたミネは金造に嫁ぎ、神戸港の人夫請負を家業とする長田組の姐さんとなった。そんな時、敵対する岸本組が刺客を雇う。金造の腹にドスを突き立てたのは清次郎だった・・・。「男まさりで侠気に燃える女が、命をかけ、体を張って只ひたすらに真実の愛を求め続ける姿を描きあげてみたい」と、加藤泰監督が語る本作は、加藤泰監督自身が7年間温めてきた執念の企画である。

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