Bakuchi Uchi
Movie
博奕打ち
1967/01/28
Character count16,489
Word count7,324
Unique words1,411
Words (1-occurrence)748
Unique kanji503
Kanji (1-occurrence)179
Difficulty beta
Hard

Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…

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