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All movies seen on 11/19/2010

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Cruel Gun Story (1964)

Directed by Takumi Furukawa

Film Noir | Crime | Thriller

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Overview

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa’s sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn’t go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Length 87 minutes

Actors

Jô Shishido | Chieko Matsubara | Tamio Kawachi | Yuji Odaka | Minako Kozuki | Akifumi Inoue | Zenji Yamada | Yuzo Kiura | Koichi Uenoyama | Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi | Hiroshi Kondô | Saburo Hiromatsu | Junichi Yamanobe | Kôtarô Sugie | Yasukiyo Umeno | Jun Miyazaki | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Shuntaro Tamamura | Masaru Kamiyama | Kôji Yashiro | Kyosuke Aihara | Gô Kuroda | Masaaki Honme | Kakuo Watai | Masatoshi Kawase | Ei Shirai | Kiyoshi Matsuoka | Sonosuke Niki | Midori Mori | Kasumi Motegi | Yôko Yokota | Setsuko Watanabe | Yoshihiko Tabata | Shirô Oshimi | Tooru Moriya | Kuniya Mizukawa | Tadao Kojima | Kenzô Matsui | Yoshiyuki Nemoto | Jirô Horisaki | Koichi Sasaki

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Viewing Notes

Tonight I dove into my ECLIPSE SERIES 17: NIKKATSU NOIR Collection to watch Cruel Gun Story (1964). This is a caper film about an ex-con that gets offered a job upon exiting prison. He recruits some unsavory fellows and gets caught in a double-cross. Reminds me a lot of The Killing from the racetrack and overall heist plot. Not the same film of course but similarities with the lead and plot.

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