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When a pickpocket steals a rookie detective's gun on a hot, crowded bus, the cop goes undercover in a desperate attempt to right the wrong. Kurosawa's thrilling noir probes the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998. (Screenwriter, Director), Kikushima, Ryūzō, 1914-1989. (Screenwriter), Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955. (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Janus Films., Tåohåo Kabushiki Kaisha., Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Motoki, Sojiro. (Producer), Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988. (Cinematographer), Mifune, Toshiråo, 1920-1997. (Actor), Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982. (Actor), Awaji, Keiko, 1933- (Actor), Miyoshi, Eiko. (Actor), Sengoku, Noriko. (Actor), Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981. (Actor), Yamamoto, Reizaburo. (Actor)
Format: DVD
Language:Japanese
English
Published: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2009, 1949.
Series:Criterion Collection.
25 films by Akira Kurosawa.
Subjects:
Thieves > Japan > Drama.
Criminals > Japan > Drama.
Feature films > Japan.
Japan > Social conditions > Drama.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.
Police films.
Film noir.
Feature films.
Table of Contents:
  • A stolen pistol
  • Identifying the pickpocket
  • Tailing Ogin
  • The black market
  • The mule
  • Arms identification
  • Interrogation
  • Baseball game
  • "Like that rain-drench cat"
  • Looking for Yusa
  • Apres-Guerre
  • Another victor
  • A showdown nears
  • Questioning Harumi
  • Sato gets closer
  • Three bullets left
  • "Twenty-eight...white linen suit"
  • Recovery
  • Color bars.

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