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I Am Waiting

Koreyoshi Kurahara
1957 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • Japan
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In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

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Rusty Knife

Toshio Masuda
1958 • 90 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
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In Toshio Masuda’s smash Rusty Knife, Yujiro Ishihara and fellow top Nikkatsu star Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to leave behind a life of crime, but their past comes back to haunt them when the authorities seek them out as murder witnesses.

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Take Aim at the Police Van

Seijun Suzuki
1960 • 84 minutes • 2.45:1 • Japan
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At the beginning of Seijun Suzuki’s taut and twisty whodunit, a prison truck is attacked and a convict inside is murdered. The penitentiary warden on duty, Daijiro (Michitaro Mizushima), is accused of negligence and suspended, only to take it upon himself to track down the killers.

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Cruel Gun Story

Takumi Furukawa
1964 • 91 minutes • 2.45:1 • Japan
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Fresh out of the slammer, Togawa (Branded to Kill’s Joe Shishido) has no chance to go straight because he is immediately coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing the heist of an armored car carrying racetrack receipts.

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A Colt Is My Passport

Takashi Nomura
1967 • 84 minutes • 2.35:1 • Japan
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One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs.

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The League of Gentlemen

Basil Dearden
1960 • 116 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
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A delightful cast of British all-stars, including Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, and Roger Livesey, brings to life this precisely calibrated caper, which was immensely popular and influenced countless Hollywood heist films.

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