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Rating: 7 stars

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yokohama Japan reporter girlfriend father nightclub murder black and white nikkatsu chinatown

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The Sleeping Beast Within (1960)

Directed by Seijun Suzuki

Crime | Film Noir

Overview

A newspaper reporter’s search for his girlfriend’s missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama’s Chinatown.

Length 86 minutes

Actors

Hiroyuki Nagato | Kazuko Yoshiyuki | Shoichi Ozawa | Shinsuke Ashida | Hisano Yamaoka | Tsutomu Shimomoto | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Keisuke Noro | Kô Nishimura | Yûko Kusunoki | Yuko Chishiro | Masaru Kamiyama | Kotoe Hatsui | Koichi Uenoyama | Nobuo Kawakami | Kinzô Shin | Toshiaki Ito | Shôki Fukae | Akira Hisamatsu | Ichiro Kijima | Kazuo Kinugasa | Shuntaro Tamamura | Yuko Chiyo | Eiko Takada | Ayako Fukuda | Terue Shigemori | Sho Furuta | Keiko Hara | Joji Hidehara | Shigeno Iwasaki | Yû Izumi | Midori Kosaka | Toshizô Kudô | Paul Raffalo | Etsurô Sekiguchi | Kensuke Tamai | Yoshigi Ôba

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I like how confident Suzuki was early in his career. Solid work with lively characters.

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