Cruel Gun Story

1964 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1340 1.3K

ex-con armored truck heist gone wrong japanese noir

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Plot summary

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Director

Takumi Furukawa Photo
Takumi Furukawa

Top cast

Jô Shishido Photo
Jô Shishido as Joji Togawa
Yûzô Kiura Photo
Yûzô Kiura as Mizuhara
Jun Miyazaki Photo
Jun Miyazaki as Police detecitve
Zenji Yamada Photo
Zenji Yamada as Nobuo Hiramoto
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794.6 MB
1280*522
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 4
1.44 GB
1920*782
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

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.
Reviewed by gbill-74877 7 / 10

Not exceptional, but not bad

As a heist film this one is a little by-the-numbers, but there is a certain cool and conflicted angst that Joe "the Ace" Shishido brings to the role, and you can certainly do worse. He's a criminal who lives by a moral code and is looking out for his sister who has a disability, a trope akin to the hooker with a heart of gold. Naturally things don't go completely as planned during the robbery, there are betrayals, and big shoot-out scenes, all leading to a wild ending. Not a bad way to spend 87 minutes.
Reviewed by jordondave-28085 6 / 10

I liked much of it other than the common themed ending often shown on older movies of that era

(1964) Cruel Gun Story/ Kenjû zankoku monogatari (In Japanese with English subtitles) CRIME DRAMA/ ACTIONThe Japanese equivalent of "The Killing", "Riffifi" and "The Asphalt Jungle" to name a few ...starring Joe Shishido as Togawa experiencing his early release set up by the syndicate, instructs him to rob the Japanese derby, only to find out later that he and his partner were tricked and double crossed. The fourth of five movies of the Nakkatsu Noir Criterion.I was like, kind of hoping that this Japanese heist equivalent of both American and UK movies was not going to end in the same manner as the other heist movies, if one were to watch enough of them made during that era may define it as cliche at this point.
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