Criterion Picks: Tokyo Crime Wave (5 videos)

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Criterion Picks: Tokyo Crime Wave (5 videos)

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Starting in the late fifties and continuing through the sixties, Japanese cinema was the place for stylish crime thrillers, from violent yakuza dramas to fast-paced heist adventures.

(5 videos) |

	Title	Description
1.	A Colt Is My Passport Movie (1:24:23) go to video page	A hit man is hired by yakuza to rub out a rival gang's boss, only to be betrayed and targeted by both sides.
2.	Golden Eyes Movie (1:19:58) go to video page	A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo. Jun Fukuda directs this follow-up to 100 Shot, 100 Killed (AKA Ironfinger).
3.	Tokyo Drifter Movie (1:22:31) go to video page	In this free-jazz gangster film, reformed killer "Phoenix" Tetsu drifts around Japan, awaiting his own execution, until he's called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
4.	Take Aim at the Police Van Movie (1:18:44) go to video page	A prison guard metes out his own brand of justice when he goes in search of the criminals who put his job--and the lives of those he was guarding--on the line.
5.	Rusty Knife Movie (1:29:42) go to video page	Former hoodlums try to leave behind a life of crime, but their past comes back to haunt them when the authorities seek them out as murder witnesses.