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Tag Archives: Mari Shiraki
Passport to Darkness (1959) Seijun Suzuki
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step Read More »
Intimidation AKA Aru kyôhaku (1960) Koreyoshi Kurahara, Kô Nishimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Mari Shiraki
A bank manager is blackmailed into robbing his own bank. Read More »
Underworld Beauty (1958) Seijun Suzuki, Michitarô Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Shinsuke Ashida, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The moment he’s released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto’s precious stones. Replete with film noir style, “Underworld Beauty” is one of Suzuki’s best nods to the American gangster genre.
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