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title: "Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir (I Am Waiting/Rusty Knife/ Take Aim at the Police Van/Cruel Gun Story/A Colt is My Passport) (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]"
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# Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir (I Am Waiting/Rusty Knife/ Take Aim at the Police Van/Cruel Gun Story/A Colt is My Passport) (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

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- **What is this?** Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir (I Am Waiting/Rusty Knife/ Take Aim at the Police Van/Cruel Gun Story/A Colt is My Passport) (The Criterion Collection) [DVD] by ken hatanoyjir ishiharakoreyoshi kuraharaseijun suzuki
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## Description

From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, wild, idiosyncratic crime movies were the brutal and boisterous business of Nikkatsu, the oldest film studio in Japan. In an effort to attract youthful audiences growing increasingly accustomed to American and French big-screen imports, Nikkatsu began producing action potboilers (mukokuseki akushun, or "borderless action") modeled on the western, comedy, gangster, and teen-rebel genres. This bruised and bloody collection represents a standout cross section of the nimble nasties Nikkatsu had to offer, from such prominent, stylistically daring directors as Seijun Suzuki, Toshio Masuda, and Takashi Nomura. I Am Waiting (1957): In Koreyoshi Kurahara's directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer. Featuring expressionist lighting and bold camera work, this was one of Nikkatsu's early successes. Rusty Knife (1958): Rusty Knife was the first smash for director Toshio Masuda, who would go on to become one of Japanese cinema's major hit makers. In the film, Yujiro Ishihara and fellow top Nikkatsu star Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to leave behind a life of crime, but their past comes back to haunt them when the authorities seek them out as murder witnesses. Take Aim at the Police Van (1960): At the beginning of Seijun Suzuki's taut and twisty whodunit, a prison truck is attacked and a convict inside is murdered. The penitentiary warden on duty, Daijiro (Michitaro Mizushima) is accused of negligence and suspended, only to take it upon himself to track down the killers. Cruel Gun Story (1964): Fresh out of the slammer, Togawa (Branded to Kill's Joe Shishido) has no chance to go straight because he is immediately coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing the heist of an armored car carrying racetrack receipts. After gathering together a ragtag bunch to carry out the robbery, Togawa learns that all is not what it seems in Takumi Furukawa's thriller. Cue the double (and triple) crosses! a Colt Is My Passport (1967): One of Japanese cinema's supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura's a Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs. Featuring an incredible, spaghetti-western-style soundtrack and brimming with formal experimentation, this is Nikkatsu at it's finest.

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Action & Adventure
- **Format:** Black & White, Box set, Full Screen, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Contributor:** Akiyoshi Fukae, Chitose Kobayashi, Haruhiko Oyabu, Hideaki Nitani, Hisataka Kai, Isamu Kosugi, Jerry Fujio, Jo Shishido, Kazuo Shimada, Ken Hatano, Kenjiro Uemura, Kjir Kusanagi, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Mie Kitahara, Naoki Sugiura, Seijun Suzuki, Takashi Nomura, Takumi Furukawa, Toshio Masuda, Yjir Ishihara
- **Language:** Japanese
- **Number Of Discs:** 5

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ probably the best Eclipse box set yet - truly eye opening
*by B***R on January 5, 2010*

Having seen most of the films in the traveling Nikkatsu noir retrospective last year when it hit New York and Boston, I was initially disappointed with the choice of titles in this collection, because the only film from that retrospective included in this box set was A Colt Is My Passport. But in hindsight, I'm glad Eclipse didn't merely duplicate the films from that retrospective, as obviously there is a lot more Nikkatsu noir out there than most of us had any clue about. Whoever chose the films for this collection knows their Japanese noir and picked a bunch of obscure and pioneering titles that all happen to be excellent. All 5 of the films in this collection are true films noir (not "sort of noir" borderline cases like many DVDs marketed as "noir" can be), kinetically and inventively filmed in black and white, featuring excellent jazz scores (and in one case a spaghetti Western-like score), beautifully presented with barely a hint of print damage, and in their original theatrical aspect ratios. As with the "no frills" approach taken in the Eclipse collections to keep the prices reasonable, there are no special features like interviews, documentaries, trailers, etc. However, the printed liner notes provided for each film give you all the critical/historical background you need on each film. I very much hope Eclipse decides to do not just a follow-up but multiple volumes of this collection -- and soon! No doubt there are plenty of noirs out there from the incredibly prolific Nikkatsu studios. Japanese noir didn't really take off until the late 1950s (barring the two influential Kurosawa films: Stray Dog and Drunken Angel in the late 40s), so many of the Nikkatsu noirs I saw in that travelling retrospective were inevitably in color. So it would be great to see some of these color noirs included in the next collection, particularly Toshio Masuda's other films (the one in this collection, A Colt Is My Passport, is black and white, but Red Handkercheif, Velvet Hustler, Gangster V.I.P., Bloodstained Challenge, and probably others are in color). In fact, how about an Eclipse set with just the Masuda noirs, along with further sets with films from various directors? In any event, this first collection is an essential purchse for fans of film noir, Japanese cinema, or just plain highly entertaining B-movies.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hit Man movie
*by W***S on March 16, 2022*

My colt is my Passport is a great movie. Saw it on TCM one night and had to make this purchase.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful cinema
*by J***Y on December 13, 2021*

I've only watched two of the set so far, and plan to collect many more of these Japanese noir and crime flicks.

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