Streaming Kurotokage (1962) Online

Kurotokage (1962)iMDB Rating: 6.4
Date Released : 14 March 1962
Genre : Drama, Mystery
Stars : Machiko Kyô, Minoru Ôki, Junko Kanô, Hiroshi Kawaguchi." />
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB

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Review :

Breathtaking, original adaptation

Not to be confused with Kinji Fukusaku's BLACK LIZARD (a slightly inferior effort), this earlier version, directed by Umeji Inoue, is groundbreaking for its brilliant use of theatrical-style lighting and sensational dance choreography.

Based on a novel by Japan's master of suspense, Edogawa Rampo, this is a fascinating suspenser about an androgynous jewel thief.

Much of the film takes place on sets, rendering many sequences strangely artificial but richly surreal.

Toshiro Mayuzumi's score is so original it's scandalous, and Yoshihasa Nakagawa's photography is simply breathtaking.

Fukusaku's version, also very good, lacks the stylization of this original adaptation of Rampo's novel probably because the subject matter was not Fukusaku's traditional bag.