Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
Jun Hamamura
Nozaki
Kō Nishimura
Matakichi Nakaike
Nobuo Kaneko
Kyosuke Takita
Yōko Kozono
Kumiko
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Shinji Kumaki
Mari Shiraki
Umeha
Zenji Yamada
Ono
Tomio Aoki
Reiko Arai
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
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A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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