A hairpin kills a girl. Kenji Misumi turns a murder into poetry.
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.
Direction
Misumi's camera glides like a guilty conscience.
Cinematography
Black-and-white shadows that actually mean something.
Acting
Hasegawa's Heiji: weary, sharp, secretly tender.
Director
Kenji Misumi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Misumi made four Heiji films; this is often considered his most visually refined.
The jidaigeki detective genre peaked in the 60s as postwar Japan interrogated its own moral codes.
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