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Rating: 6.5 stars

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Seen on: 09/29/2011

  • Watched on: TV
  • Format: DVD

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Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)

Directed by Seijun Suzuki

Crime

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he’s Tamon, an upright, modest man. He begins his own investigation into the murders. Who were the victims, who are their relatives and girlfriends, who else was on the van that night? As he doggedly investigates, others die, coincidences occur, and several leads take him to the Hamaju Agency, which may be supplying call girls. Its owner is in jail, his daughter, the enigmatic Yuko, keeps turning up where Tamon goes. Tamon believes he can awaken good in people, but has he met his match? Will he solve the murders or be the next victim? And who is Akiba?

Length 79 minutes

Actors

Kotoe Hatsui | Shinsuke Ashida | Tôru Abe | Misako Watanabe | Hiroshi Chô | Arata Shibata | Shoichi Ozawa | Tomio Aoki | Ryôhei Uchida | Mari Shiraki | Michitaro Mizushima | Saburo Hiromatsu | Tatsuo Matsushita | Reiko Arai | Toyo Fukuda | Akira Hisamatsu | Tamaki Katori | Hiroshi Midorikawa | Keisuke Noro | Yôko Yokota | Koichi Uenoyama | Sho Furuta | Norikatsu Hanamura | Ayako Fukuda | Kyoko Natsu | Kaoru Yamamoto | Eiko Takada | Shigeno Iwasaki | Reina Hanayagi | Hiroshi Nagashi

Viewing Notes

Perhaps not my favorite of the Nikkatsu Noir series from Criterion, but a solid effort nonetheless. This is an early effort from famed genre director Seijun Suzuki, who has a long list of great Japanese crime movies to his credit. Definitely a body of work worth checking out. I’ve not delved nearly deep enough into his ouvre.

This was the last of the six Nikkatsu Noir offerings from Criterion for me.

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