Director: Tai Katō
Cast: Noboru Andō, Ichirō Nakatani, Sanae Nakahara, Jūzō Itami, Akemi Mari,
Plot: Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
Discovering a Japanese master: Tai Katô
Despite a career spanning from the 1930s to the mid-’80s, I hadn’t even heard of Tai Katô until a recent flurry of disk releases from Radiance in England and Film Movement in the States, yet he produced significant work in some of my […]