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HIBOTAN BAKUTO series. #6 of 8 films.

Here Eiko Yamagishi plays an older Okimi/Kimiko, the blind little girl character first seen in Hibotan bakuto: Hanafuda shôbu (1969), which puts this movie several years after the events of that film. Confusingly, in Red Peony Gambler 3, Junkô Tôda plays Okimi's mother, while in this film she plays a jealous actress competing with her for a part. Among other returning cast members not playing the same character is Kanjûrô Arashi, here playing an entirely different but identical looking Yakuza oyabun as his character in Red Peony Gambler 3, which as with several other identical looking people she encounters, provokes no recognition in the possibly face-blind Oryu.