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Rating: 7 stars

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Seen on: 05/29/2011

  • Watched on: TV
  • Format: DVD

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I Am Waiting (1957)

Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara

Crime

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Length 91 minutes

Actors

Kenjiro Uemura | Hideaki Nitani | Ayuko Fujishiro | Yûjirô Ishihara | Tomio Aoki | Hyôe Enoki | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Naoki Sugiura | Mie Kitahara | Isamu Kosugi | Nobuo Kawakami | Chiyoko Shimizu | Mikiko Sakai | Shôki Fukae | Shirô Yanase | Jun Miyazaki | Keisuke Tate | Keiko Hara | Kenji Kawai | Masatoshi Takase | Masayuki Kawamura | Ken Hatano | Kazuo Mihara | Jōji Ehara | Kenji Mizutani

Viewing Notes

Another Nikkatsu Noir film from Criterion’s Eclipse collection; the second one I’ve watched.

Shot in black and white, with some great stark shadows going on, I Am Waiting gets off to a slow start an requires some patience. If you stick with it, it pays off though, as you get slowly drawn into the characters and their stories, which fuels the climax.

Well worth a watch, but definitely requires patience.

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