Rent Underworld Beauty / Love Letter (1958)
3.6 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 27min
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- Synopsis:
Retrieving the diamonds he stashed before his arrest, thief Miyamoto (Michitarô Mizushima) hopes to help his old partner Mihara (Mari Shiraki), crippled during the heist. Their former boss, crime lord Oyane (Shinsuke Ashida), offers to mediate with a foreign buyer, but secretly wants the stones for himself. The deal goes awry when gunmen appear on the scene. Mihara swallows the diamonds but dies in the chase, leaving a valuable corpse in the police morgue. Miyamoto forms an uneasy alliance with Mihara's wildcat sister Akiko (Mari Shiraki) to keep the gems away from gangsters, cops and even Akiko's greedy boyfriend. This wildly inventive early noir sees Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tattooed Life) infectiously playing with genre rules and gender stereotypes. - Actors:
- Michitarô Mizushima, Mari Shiraki, Shinsuke Ashida, Tôru Abe, Hideaki Nitani, Setsuko Amamiya, Tomio Aoki, Shôki Fukae, Ayako Fukuda, Akinori Hanamura, Kyôko Horikawa, Ryûsei Itô, Bumon Kahara, Hiroshi Katô, Ichirô Kijima, Hiroshi Kondô, Jun Miyazaki, Kyôichi Mizuki, Reiko Sakuma, Eiko Takada
- Directors:
- Seijun Suzuki
- Producers:
- Takashi Nishihara
- Writers:
- Susumu Saji, Takeo Matsuura
- Aka:
- Ankokugai no bijo / Rabu retâ
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/01/2025
- Run Time:
- 87 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New interview with critic Mizuki Kodama (2024, 15 mins)
- Bonus feature: Seijun Suzuki's Love Letter (1959, 40 mins)
- Audio commentary on Love Letter by Suzuki biographer William Carroll (2024)
- Trailers for both films