Criterion Picks: The Art of the Heist (5 videos)

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For the characters in these cleverly plotted films, it’s all about the loot; for viewers, the fun is in the process.

(5 videos) |

	Title	Description
1.	Cruel Gun Story Movie (1:26:25) go to video page	Japanese cinema's tough guy extraordinaire Joe Shishido coolly plays a thief who's released from jail and pulled into a tricky plot to hold up an armored car.
2.	Black Lizard Movie (1:41:37) go to video page	The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
3.	The League of Gentlemen Movie (1:53:37) go to video page	Bitter about being forced into retirement, a colonel ropes a cadre of former British army men into aiding him in a one-million-pound bank robbery—a risky, multitiered plan that involves infiltrating a military compound.
4.	Intimidation Movie (1:05:29) go to video page	Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion.
5.	Endless Desire Movie (1:40:28) go to video page	Ten years after World War II, five people set out dig up a stash of morphine buried under a butcher shop.