98 minutes
9/14/1968
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a stranger in alley. Ryuko then dissolves her yakuza family, and, carrying the wallet left by the killer, she sets out on a journey to avenge her father's death. Five years later, she wanders the nation, known only as! Red Peony Oryu who has a red peony tattooed on her shoulder and has the defiance and courage of a man. She meets Katagiri - a loner gambler, Kumatora - boss of a family in Shikoku, and Otaka - female boss of the Doman Family in Osaka. With their help, she finally catches up with the man who murdered her father.
Sumiko Fuji
as Hibotan no Ryu
Ken Takakura
as Naoki Katagiri
Tomisaburō Wakayama
as Torakichi Kumasaka
Kyōsuke Machida
as Fujimatsu, the Immortal
Isamu Dobashi
Masako Araki
Junpei Arishima
Daisuke Awaji
Shôgo Egami
Hiroshi Hatano
Shōtarō Hayashi
Kunio Hikita
Akira Hirasawa
Masao Hori
Yoshihiro Igarashi
Nobuo Kaneko
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Kenji Kusumoto
as Nakagawa
Ryôzô Maegawa
Yuriko Mishima
Gentarō Mori
Kyōnosuke Murai
Takuzō Kawatani
as Henchman
Minoru Ōki
Rinichi Yamamoto