{"id":17899,"date":"2025-09-14T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17899"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:27:13","slug":"kanto-wanderer-1963-seijun-suzuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17899","title":{"rendered":"Kanto Wanderer (1963, Seijun Suzuki)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unique structure, starting with the girls in a crime town gazing at the local criminals, then spiraling into the lives of the criminals themselves.  Who here is a Kanto wanderer, though?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/kanto1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Gutsy chick Hanako (Fukasaku regular Sanae Nakahara) gets sold into prostitution, sidelining the young women, while scarfaced Kat (Akira Kobayashi, between <em>Rusty Knife<\/em> and the <em>Yakuza Papers<\/em>) tries in vain to protect his boss while the rival gang&#8217;s warrior Diamond is on a bloody rampage.  Kat is also hot for Diamond&#8217;s gambler-hustler sister (Hiroko Ito of <em>Tattooed Life<\/em>), flashing back to when he got his scar over her years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s a pretty okay story, but sometimes leads to great moments like this:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/kanto2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unique structure, starting with the girls in a crime town gazing at the local criminals, then spiraling into the lives of the criminals themselves. Who here is a Kanto wanderer, though? Gutsy chick Hanako (Fukasaku regular Sanae Nakahara) gets sold into prostitution, sidelining the young women, while scarfaced Kat (Akira Kobayashi, between Rusty Knife and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,1243,36,191,120],"class_list":["post-17899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-gangsters","tag-japan","tag-prostitution","tag-seijun-suzuki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17920,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899\/revisions\/17920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}