Intimidation (1960)
3.7 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 5min
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- Synopsis:
- A recently promoted and universally lauded bank executive is forced to rob his own bank to pay off a blackmailer who has evidence of his prior embezzlement: in other words, bank robbery just leads to more bank robbery, but in cruder form. Nobuo Kaneko plays the banker, Takita, who plans the robbery for when his unambitious and easily intimidated childhood friend Nakaie (Kô Nishimura) has night watchman duty. Donned with a mask and a handgun, Takita seems to pull off the heist as smoothly as he'd envisioned, but when Nakaike betrays a hint of recognition, the plot makes a twist, and then another, and then another.
- Actors:
- Kô Nishimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Mari Shiraki, Jun Hamamura, Kôjirô Kusanagi, Yôko Kosono, Zenji Yamada, Tomio Aoki, Reiko Arai, Norikatsu Hanamura, Nobuo Kawakami, Shôji Kawamura, Kenji Kawatani, Toshizô Kudô, Kaneyuki Mizutani, Chiyoko Shimizu, Daisei Yamanaka
- Directors:
- Koreyoshi Kurahara
- Producers:
- Ryôji Mogi
- Writers:
- Osamu Kawase, Kyô Takigawa
- Aka:
- Aru kyôhaku
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
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Reviews (1) of Intimidation
Office Politics, Noir Edition - Intimidation review by griggs
I love a noir that gets to the point. Intimidation is barely an hour long, and it wastes none of it.
Kyosuke Takita (Nobuo Kaneko) manages a bank and has been cooking the books. A blackmailer spots the weakness and names the price. To pay, Takita has to do the one thing that will end him faster than the scandal: rob his own bank.
Kurahara keeps it plain and pressurised—no speeches, no padding, just small decisions piling up. Matakichi Nakaike (Akira/Ko Nishimura), the underling Takita has stepped over, adds a sour little edge: this isn’t just crime, it’s office politics with the gloves off.
It’s short, tense, and quietly nasty.
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