Afraid to Die

Afraid to Die
Directed by	Yasuzo Masumura
Produced by	Masaichi Nagata Hiroaki Fujii (planner)
Written by	Hideo Ando Ryūzō Kikushima
Starring	Yukio Mishima Ayako Wakao Keizo Kawasaki
Music by	Tetsuo Tsukahara
Cinematography	Hiroshi Murai
Edited by	Tatsuji Nakashizu
Distributed by	Daiei Film Fantoma
Release dates	23 March 1960
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Afraid to Die (からっ風野郎 Karakkaze Yarō) is a 1960 Japanese yakuza film directed by Yasuzo Masumura and starring Yukio Mishima.

Cast

• Yukio Mishima - Takeo Asahina
• Ayako Wakao - Yoshie Koizumi
• Keizo Kawasaki - Shoichi Koizumi
• Eiji Funakoshi - Susumu Aikawa
• Takashi Shimura - Gohei Hirayama
• Yaeko Mizutani - Masako Katori
• Michiko Ono - Ayako Takatsu

Theme song

"Karakkaze Yarō" (released by King Records on March 20, 1960 in Japan) ^[1][2][3][4]

Lyrics and vocals: Yukio Mishima

Music and guitar: Shichirō Fukazawa

Arrangement: Koji Eguchi

This sound source is put on CD now.^[2]

References

1. Sato, Hideaki; Inoue, Takashi (2005). 決定版 三島由紀夫全集・第42巻・年譜・書誌 [Final edition-Yukio Mishima complete works No.42-Biographical sketch and Bibliography] (in Japanese). Shinchosha. p. 891.
2. Sato, Hideaki; Inoue, Takashi (2004). 決定版 三島由紀夫全集・第41巻・音声 CD, Disc No.5 [Final edition-Yukio Mishima complete works No.41- Voice CD, Disc No.5] (in Japanese). Shinchosha.
3. Mishima, Yukio (1999). Yamauchi, Yukito; Hiraoka, Iichiro; Fujii, Hiroaki, eds. 三島由紀夫映画論集成 [Collection of Yukio Mishima's Movie theory] (in Japanese). Waizu Shuppan. p. 307.
4. Sato, Hideaki (2006). 日本の作家100人 人と文学 - 三島由紀夫 [100 Japanese authors - Person and Literature - Yukio Mishima] (in Japanese). Bensei Shuppan. p. 112.

External links

• Afraid to Die at the Internet Movie Database
• Japanese movie database からっ風野郎