SYNOPSIS: 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 Intimidation (Aru kyouhaku) is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
| Kyosuke Takita | Nobuo Kaneko |
| Umeha | Mari Shiraki |
| Matakichi Nakaike | Akira Nishimura |
| Shinji Kumaki | Kojiro Kusanagi |
| Ono | Zenji Yamada |
| Nozaki | Jun Hamamura |
| Kumiko | Yoko Kozono |
| Director | Koreyoshi Kurahara |
| Producer | Ryoji Motegi |
| Original story | Kyo Takigawa |
| Screenplay | Osamu Kawase |
| Cinematography | Yoshihiro Yamazaki |
| Production design | Kazuhiko Chiba |
| Editing | Akira Suzuki |
| Music | Masaru Sato |
By August 23, 2011
Impassioned and dedicated craftsman of some of Japanese cinema’s biggest box-office successes and most eccentric off-genre sorties, longtime Nikkatsu studios mainstay Koreyoshi Kurahara (1927–2002 . . . Read more »
September 06, 2011
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