Rent A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
4.0 of 5 from 49 ratings
3h 3min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
In 1947, a freak typhoon sends a passenger ferry running between Hokkaido and mainland Japan plunging to the ocean depths, with hundreds of lives lost. During the chaos, three men are witnessed fleeing a burning pawnshop in the Hokkaido port town of Iwanai. The police suspect theft and arson, and when Detective Yumisaka (Junzaburo Ban) discovers the burned remains of a boat and the corpses of two men, he sets about tracking the shadowy third figure. Meanwhile, the mysterious Takichi Inukai (Rentaro Mikuni) takes shelter with a prostitute, Yae (Sachiko Hidari), a brief encounter that will come to define both of their lives. A decade later, long after the trail has gone cold, Yumisaka is called back by his successor Detective Ajimura (Ken Takakura) as two new dead bodies are found. - Actors:
- Rentarô Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Kôji Mitsui, Yoshi Katô, Sadako Sawamura, Susumu Fujita, Akiko Kazami, Seiichirô Kameishi, Shûsuke Sone, Mitsuo Andô, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Shôken Sawa, Tadashi Suganuma, Sachi Shindô, Yuriko Anjô, Kôji Sekiyama, Itsuma Mogami, Tatsuya Kitayama, Kôsaku Okano, Nobuo Yana
- Directors:
- Tomu Uchida
- Producers:
- Hiroshi Ohkawa
- Writers:
- Naoyuki Suzuki, Tsutomu Minakami
- Aka:
- Kiga kaikyô / Straits of Hunger
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/09/2022
- Run Time:
- 183 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Introduction by writer and curator Jasper Sharp
- Scene-specific commentaries from leading Japanese film scholars Aaron Gerow, Irene Gonzalez-Lopez, Erik Homenick, Earl Jackson, Daisuke Miyao, and Alexander Zahlten
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Tomu Uchida filmography
