With the 100th anniversary of Japanese studio Nikkatsu in 2012, some rare films are finally getting a proper DVD release, in Japan at least. Among these restored films, Danger Paws directed by Ko Nakahira, who is mostly known in the West for Crazed Fruit, a fresh & surprising film about the wealthy but bored youth in the late 1950s.
Danger Paws is quite different, it’s the story of a “couple of crooks stealing nearly one billion yen worth of watermarked paper used to print bills“, starring Joe Shishido as the lead character. With director Nakahira revealing (once again) his talent for visual composition – some amazing shots in this trailer -, while playing with different genres; hard-boiled yakuza film, comedy, drama… Wondering why it was kept hidden so long on a shelf somewhere.
The film is only available on unsubbed Japanese DVD.
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