The Wandering Guitarist

The Wandering Guitarist (ギターを持った渡り鳥) is a 1959 Japanese action and yakuza film directed by Buichi Saitō. It stars Akira Kobayashi. The Wandering Guitarist is the first film of Akira Kobayashi and Buichi Saitō's Wataridori series. The film made Akira Kobayashi a star and he gained national popularity.

Plot
Shinji Taki is a former detective but now he is a vagabond with a guitar. In the port town he visits, Taki saves a yakuza of the Akitsu clan at a bar fight and he is hired as a bouncer of the Akitsu clan. Akitsu orders Taki to evict the inhabitants for the development of the town.
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Cast

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 * Akira Kobayashi as Shinji Taki
 * Ruriko Asaoka as Yuki Akitsu
 * Joe Shishido as Joe
 * Nobuo Kaneko as Reizaburō Akitsu (Head of the Akitsu clan)
 * Sanae Nakahara as Shōji Sumiko
 * Misako Watanabe as Rie
 * Kyōji Aoyama as Yasukawa
 * Tomio Aoki as Tetsu

Wataridori series

 * Kuchibue ga Nagareru Minatomachi (1960)
 * Naked Youth -A Story of Cruelty (1960)
 * Sword and Devotion (1960)
 * The Spook Cottage(1960)
 * The Rambler under the Southern Cross(1961)
 * Ōunabara wo Yuku Wataridori (1961)
 * Kitakikōyori Wataridori Kitae Kaeru (1962)