Intimidation

Intimidation

65 mins | Crime | March 23, 1960

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.

Intimidation

65 mins | Crime | March 23, 1960

Intimidation
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Nikkatsu Corporation
Original title ある脅迫
Directors Koreyoshi Kurahara
Writers Kyo Takigawa, Osamu Kawase

Cast

Jun Hamamura

as Nozaki

Nobuo Kaneko

as Kyosuke Takita

Yōko Kozono

as Kumiko

Kōjirō Kusanagi

as Shinji Kumaki

Kō Nishimura

as Matakichi Nakaike

Mari Shiraki

as Umeha

Zenji Yamada

as Ono