'Jûsangô taihisen' yori: Sono gosôsha o nerae (1960)

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   Seijun Suzuki's Take Aim at the Police Van is his answer to to such noir films as The Maltese Falcon or The Long Goodbye, where you're drawn into a suspenseful quest into the underworld, but have really no clue what's happening from moment to moment or how things are connected. The script even mentions some of the mystery authors emulated. Our "Sam Spade" figure is a disgraced prison transport driver who becomes obsessed with finding out who shot his van and prisoners, and why. There are a few more murders along the way, so something being kept quiet, and a femme fatale at the center of it (the rather intriguing Misako Watanabe). Suzuki isn't as stylish here as he'll eventually become, but the opener is clever, and he his the streets with jazz. The final train yard sequence is happily filmed at night, showing how much better this is than the frequent day-for-night in the rest of the movie. 2 years 11 months ago

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