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I am Waiting (Ore wa matteru ze) (1957)

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Directed by

Koreyoshi Kurahara

Starring

Ken Hatano

Shibata - Younger

Yûjirô Ishihara

Jôji Shimaki

Mie Kitahara

Saeko

Isamu Kosugi

Uchiyama

Kôjirô Kusanagi

Takeda

Hideaki Nitani

Shibata - Shibata elder

Naoki Sugiura

Shibata's brother

Kenjiro Uemura

Police detective

Written by

Shintarô Ishihara

written by

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In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Release date: 22 October 1957

Japan (5), 1950s (5), 1957 (1), East Asia (1), Film Noir (1)

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"A brilliant Japanese film noir movie. This is about a retired boxer Joji Shimaki now a restaurant owner who meets up with a lounge singer Saeko who is trying to run away from her gangster employer. The boxer has been waiting a year for his brother Tetsu to contact him from Brazil, where he hopes to move and help his brother farm. It turns out that Tetsu never made it there. His mysterious disappearance is linked with the aforementioned gangsters. The story here is really good, and, in general, i"