It seems I chose wisely by wanting to check this one out after the HK movie. One reason being that there exists several movies in the world, especially foreign ones, that have as many titles as they had distributors. As I mentioned in the other topic, the French New Wave did not go unnoticed, and if you stick around for after the fight, you can see that the Japanese have been more daring in this regard, what with hostess lady of a presumed nearby nightclub just flashing her leg like that.
The next scene I where I continued watching, it was a bit of heavy-handed symbolism with the street dog looking rest to eat, a dead ringer for the social status many of these citizens had to inhabit at the time. Though Japan emerged an economic power under Kennedy's reign, it wasn't until 1962 that Tokyo markets had seen daily fresh fruit.
A very similar economic hardship can be seen in the movie, a title of which I had sadly forgotten, where the pearl diving women get into a mass brawl. These were pretty much the last Japanese movies to feature realistic female fights after the 1970s' pinku films took over, and the girl gang boss fights steered the genre into the sexual, not just realistic.
