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Rating: 7 stars

All movies seen on 05/29/2011

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I Am Waiting (1957)

Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara

Crime

Overview

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Length 91 minutes

Actors

Yûjirô Ishihara | Mie Kitahara | Isamu Kosugi | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Hideaki Nitani | Kenjiro Uemura | Keisuke Tate | Masayuki Kawamura | Ayuko Fujishiro | Tomio Aoki | Hyôe Enoki | Naoki Sugiura | Jōji Ehara | Shôki Fukae | Jun Miyazaki | Shirô Yanase | Kazuo Mihara | Kenji Mizutani | Nobuo Kawakami | Keiko Hara | Kenji Kawai | Mikiko Sakai | Masatoshi Takase | Chiyoko Shimizu | Ken Hatano

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Another Nikkatsu Noir film from Criterion’s Eclipse collection; the second one I’ve watched.

Shot in black and white, with some great stark shadows going on, I Am Waiting gets off to a slow start an requires some patience. If you stick with it, it pays off though, as you get slowly drawn into the characters and their stories, which fuels the climax.

Well worth a watch, but definitely requires patience.

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