Movies: Japanese noir

  • 1960
    The Bad Sleep Well

    The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

    The Bad Sleep Well

    7.71960HD

    In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their...

    The Bad Sleep Well
  • 1963
    High and Low

    High and Low (1963)

    High and Low

    8.31963HD

    In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake....

    High and Low
  • 1964
    Pale Flower

    Pale Flower (1964)

    Pale Flower

    7.41964HD

    A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling....

    Pale Flower
  • 1966
    Tokyo Drifter

    Tokyo Drifter (1966)

    Tokyo Drifter

    7.11966HD

    After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gu...

    Tokyo Drifter
  • 2021
    OSARU-CHAN

    OSARU-CHAN (2021)

    OSARU-CHAN

    02021HD

    When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly to thieves....

    OSARU-CHAN
  • 1958
    Rusty Knife

    Rusty Knife (1958)

    Rusty Knife

    5.91958HD

    Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a ...

    Rusty Knife
  • 1960
    Take Aim at the Police Van

    Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)

    Take Aim at the Police Van

    6.21960HD

    A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer....

    Take Aim at the Police Van
  • 1960
    Intimidation

    Intimidation (1960)

    Intimidation

    7.11960HD

    Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidatio...

    Intimidation
  • 1967
    A Colt Is My Passport

    A Colt Is My Passport (1967)

    A Colt Is My Passport

    6.91967HD

    A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy....

    A Colt Is My Passport
  • 1964
    Cruel Gun Story

    Cruel Gun Story (1964)

    Cruel Gun Story

    6.31964HD

    Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million ye...

    Cruel Gun Story
  • 2008
    The Most Beautiful Night In The World

    The Most Beautiful Night In The World (2008)

    The Most Beautiful Night In The World

    6.12008HD

    Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lac...

    The Most Beautiful Night In The World
  • 1957
    I Am Waiting

    I Am Waiting (1957)

    I Am Waiting

    6.51957HD

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

    I Am Waiting
  • 1959
    ゆがんだ月

    ゆがんだ月 (1959)

    ゆがんだ月

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    ゆがんだ月
  • 1963
    Badge of the Night

    Badge of the Night (1963)

    Badge of the Night

    01963HD

    A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suic...

    Badge of the Night
  • 2002
    Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas

    Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas (2002)

    Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas

    62002HD

    Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about...

    Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas