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    1949     Film noir    
    Japan
    2h 2min
    Original language: Japanese

    The setting for this Akira Kurosawa film noir is Tokyo in the late 1940s, its streets blasted by war and its economy in collapse. When Murakami, a young detective (Toshiro Mifune, in one of his earliest roles), loses his gun to a thief, he must descend into a hell teeming with shady characters to retrieve it. Soon Murakami's pistol turns up as the weapon in the murder of a woman, leading the guilt-ridden rookie to seek help from his senior officer, Sato (Takashi Shimura). Together Murakami and Sato must hunt down the killer before he strikes again.

    Directed byAkira Kurosawa
    Written byAkira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima
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    Starring

    Toshirô Mifune
    Takashi Shimura
    Keiko Awaji
    Eiko Miyoshi
    Noriko Sengoku
    Noriko Honma
    Reikichi Kawamura
    Eijirô Tôno
    Yasushi Nagata
    Kappei Matsumoto
    Isao Kimura
    Minoru Chiaki
    Teruko Kishi
    Ichirô Sugai
    Gen Shimizu
    Kan Yanagiya
    Hajime Izu
    Masao Shimizu
    Kokuten Kôdô
    Yûnosuke Itô
    Akira Ubukata
    Fujio Nagahama
    Isao Ikukaka
    Shiro Mizutani
    Eizo Tanaka

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