Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
- chauffeur
- police
- ransom
- manager
- kidnapping
- blackmail
- heroin
- film noir
- black and white
- shoe
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Toshirō Mifune
Kingo Gondo
Tatsuya Nakadai
Chief Detective Tokura
Kyōko Kagawa
Reiko Gondo
Tatsuya Mihashi
Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary
- Isao Kimura — Detective Arai
- Kenjirō Ishiyama — Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
- Takeshi Katō — Detective Nakao
- Takashi Shimura — Chief of Investigation Section
- Jun Tazaki — Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
- Nobuo Nakamura — Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
- Yūnosuke Itō — Baba - National Shoes Executive
- Tsutomu Yamazaki — Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
- Minoru Chiaki — First Reporter
- Eijirō Tōno — Factory Worker
- Masao Shimizu — Prison Warden
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
Production
- Rating
- 8.4 / 10 · 1,187 ratings
- Studio
- TOHO, Kurosawa Production
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
