Category Police

1920s, Cinema, Drama, Japan, Japanese Cinema, Police, Prostitution, Taisho, Uncategorized, Violence, Yakuza

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (Jinsei gekijō: Hishakaku to Kiratsune, 人生劇場・飛車角と吉良常),1968

Head and shoulders shot of a young Japanese woman in traditional dress leaning against a wall, looking distraught

Other titles: A Tale of Two Yakuza (alternate English title); Theater of Life: Hishakaku and Kiratsune (literal English title) Production Company Toei (Tokyo) Scenarist Tanada Gorō Source Ozaki Shirō (novel) Producer Okawa Hiroshi Planning Shundo Hiroji, Okubo Tadayuki, Yoshida Tatsu…

RebelJack
January 19, 2024

1940s, 1950s, Buddhism, Capitalism, Cinema, Colonization, Drama, Film History, Japan, Japanese Cinema, Maoism, masterpiece, Police, Poverty, Prostitution, Serial killer, Social justice, Tokyo, Tragedy, Violence

A Fugitive from the Past (Kiga Kaikyō;飢餓海峡), 1965

A middle-aged Japanese man with a mustache is looking towards the camera with a distressed expression

Other titles: The Hunger Straits, Straits of Hunger (literal English titles); Starvation Straits (alternative English title) Le détroit de la faim (literal French title); Szökevény a múltból [A Fugitive from the Past] (alternate Hungarian title) Production Company Toei (Tokyo) Scenarist…

RebelJack
April 30, 2023
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Cinema, Cities, Communists, Japan, Police, Silent Movie, Tokyo, Uncategorized

Police Officer (Keisatsukan, 警察官), 1933

Other titles: Policeman, Police (alternate English titles); Policial (alternate Portuguese title) Production Company Shinkō Distributor Asakusa Denkikan Scenarist Yamauchi Eizo Source Takeda Toshihiko, Ōmori Bank Robbery (play) Cinematographer Aisaka Sōichi Art Director Mizutani Hiroshi Performers Nakano Eiji (Tomioka Tetsuo); Kosugi…