Passport to Darkness
(Ankoku no ryoken)
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Directed by Seijun Suzuki.
With Ryoji Hayama, Chako van Leeuwen, Masumi Okada.
Japan, 1959, 35mm, black & white, 88 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation
With Ryoji Hayama, Chako van Leeuwen, Masumi Okada.
Japan, 1959, 35mm, black & white, 88 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation
In this stylish film noir, a trombonist goes on an all-night bender after his wife disappears during their honeymoon. When he returns home to find her corpse in their apartment, he sets off on a frantic quest to find her killer by piecing together a night he can’t remember. Suzuki used this classic noir material to play with genre tropes and make expressive use of darkness and light.
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