Cruel Gun Story

1964 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1390 1.4K

ex-con armored truck heist gone wrong japanese noir

Director

Takumi Furukawa Photo
Takumi Furukawa

Top cast

Yûzô Kiura Photo
Yûzô Kiura as Mizuhara
Jun Miyazaki Photo
Jun Miyazaki as Police detecitve
Yûji Odaka Photo
Yûji Odaka as Shirai
Zenji Yamada Photo
Zenji Yamada as Nobuo Hiramoto
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794.6 MB
1280*522
Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
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1.44 GB
1920*782
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by net_orders 6 / 10

A Bit Too Many Bangs for the Buck.

Reviewed by jamesrupert2014 8 / 10

Perennial Nikkatsu Studios hard-case Joe Shishido plays 'Togawa', a recently released con who is convinced by a mob boss to plan and execute an armoured car robbery, targeting 120 million yen in race track proceeds. In a typical narrative trajectory for these types of stories, he assembles his team, plans the heist, does the job, deals with the unforeseen complications, and then is double crossed, leading to a third act of reprisal and vengeance. Togawa is an interesting, ambivalent character: he's initially portrayed in a sympathetic light as the orphaned son of parents murdered by the Chinese at the end of WW2 and loving brother of an invalid sister, yet his role in the heist is to ambush and gun down the two escorting police men in cold blood. In keeping with the film's cold, evocative title ("Cruel Gun Story"), the body count is high as 'Togawa' is forced to deal with treachery within his own team, betrayal by the mob boss who hired him, as well as a corrupt ex-lawyer trying to move up in the criminal ranks. The ending is bleak and grim, but satisfying in a noir way. Well worth watching by fans of crime melodramas.
Reviewed by christopher-underwood 6 / 10

much double cross

This wonderful box-set from Radiance, World Noir Vol.2 with the German, Black Gravel (1961) and the French, Symphony for a Massacre (1963) were fine but this third one from Japan was not as good. Of course, Joe Shishido is great and all the actors fine but the story is just too simple and predictable. There is a lot of shouting and hitting each other for little reason and much double cross although there are some decent shoot-outs. Shishido was starring the same year with Youth of a Beast (1963) and later with Branded to Kill (1967) both fantastic and it is just a shame that this one just not good enough.
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