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Rating: 8 stars

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A Fugitive from the Past (1965)

Directed by Tomu Uchida

Drama | Crime | Mystery

Overview

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.

Length 183 minutes

Actors

Rentarô Mikuni | Sachiko Hidari | Kôji Mitsui | Yoshi Katô | Sadako Sawamura | Susumu Fujita | Akiko Kazami | Seiichirô Kameishi | Akikane Sawa | Tadashi Suganuma | Kôji Sekiyama | Nobuo Yana | Hajime Kubo | Gôzô Sôma | Genji Kawai | Hideo Murota | Osamu Kimura | Akio Suzuki | Masanobu Ôkubo | Tadashi Katô | Ken Takakura | Junzaburô Ban | Shusuke Sone | Mitsuo Andô | Rinichi Yamamoto | Sachi Shindô | Itsuma Mogami | Tatsuya Kitayama | Kosaku Okano | Junnosuke Takasu | Shirô Ôki | Ryô Suga | Osamu Yamanouchi | Sakae Shima | Shôhachi Uchikoshi | Yuji Kitamine | Tomiko Makinouchi | Asako Maki | Yuki Hayami | Mineo Matsudaira | Kiyoshi Matsukawa | Takashi Sawamura | Kôsaku Mita | Ryô Mihara | Tamae Araki | Hisako Kawamura | Takashi Toyama | Shinko Endô | Junji Nishimura | Sadao Yagi | San'yû Saitô | Kinto Tamura | Akira Yano | Chineko Sugawara | Yuriko Anjo

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

The description in TMDb isn’t the most accurate.

Clocking in at just over 3 hours, this is a gorgeous black-and-white tale of murder and redemption spanning the immediate post-war years of Japan from 1947 to the late ‘50s, focused primarily in and around the Northernmost major Japanese island of Hokkaido and the city of Hakodate.

For what is mostly a drama this has really good pacing and doesn’t feel nearly as long as it actually is. Now I’m interested to watch the director’s BLOODY SPEAR OF MT. FUJI, which I also own from Arrow.

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