A silent killer, a portside hell, and jazz so cool it commits crimes.
Acting
Shinsuke Maki's wordless menace speaks volumes.
Cinematography
Port smoke and neon bleeding into black-and-white perfection.
Score
Jazz score that smolders like a lit cigarette.
Director
Norio Nakagawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Nikkatsu's 'borderless action' wave, importing Hollywood noir aesthetics into yakuza contexts before the genre codified.
Director Norio Nakagawa vanished from records after 1965; this survives as his most complete work, making every frame feel stolen from a ghost.
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