Kiga kaikyô

1965 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 96% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.9/10 10 1567 1.6K

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Plot summary

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.

Director

Tomu Uchida Photo
Tomu Uchida

Top cast

Masanobu Ôkubo Photo
Masanobu Ôkubo as
Hideo Murota Photo
Hideo Murota as Pressman
Osamu Yamanouchi Photo
Osamu Yamanouchi as
Yuriko Anjô Photo
Yuriko Anjô as Tokiko Katsuragi
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1.64 GB
1280*534
Japanese 2.0
15
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
3 hr 2 min
Seeds 4
3.04 GB
1920*800
Japanese 2.0
15
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
3 hr 2 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Sachiko Hidari ("Yae") is great in this film

Sachiko Hidari ("Yae") is great in this film as the young geisha who shelters "Inukai" (Rentarô Mikuni) from a storm one night. Next morning he leaves her quite a sum of money - one that enables her to change her life, pay her debts - all whilst he disappears. That storm was actually a tornado that sank a local ferry boat. During that investigation, two unknown bodies are identified - and they are soon tied in with a fire that largely destroyed a local village where a robbery had taken place. Where had the money gone? Who killed the men? Many years later, "Yae" spots a photograph in a newspaper that she thinks might be her long lost benefactor and sets out to say thanks - with tragic consequences. It is a long film this, over 3 hours, but the clever - almost internecine - fashion in which the old and new stories are married together; the police investigations and the characterisations are carefully and fully crafted leaves us with quite a complex crime thriller. Now, sadly, what makes the thriller work so well is also what ruined the ending for me. It is flawed in so many ways as to make me want to shout at the screen. It's not that the ending itself is wrong, it is that the police procedures (remembering that there was little science involved in the process) are all just to convenient - far fetched, even. Still, this is a strongly paced, beautifully photographed piece of story-telling cinema that runs parallel narratives well and cohesively.
Reviewed by shaid 9 / 10

Simpley Good

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