Women's Police

1969 1h 22m JA

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10.0

MASTERPIECE

★10.0TMDB · 1

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Synopsis

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Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, makes customers pay up and women play straight. So he is called 'the woman's police-man' and he takes his job seriously. One day, Chiyoko (Yukiyo Toake), a former hostess, comes to him. Her husband has been murdered and she wants help. The man had been a college classmate and Kagari decides to do what he can. In his investigation he overturns a whole nest of intrigue. Men he had thought irreproachable turn out to be corrupt; solid citizens are seen as the worst kind of scoundrels. Until now, Kagari has specialized in women and their problems. But, realizing the real state of affairs, he rolls up his sleeves for a good cleaning- up-at the same time discovering the murderer of his friend.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Akira Kobayashi
Masaaki Kagari
Yukiyo Toake
Chiyoko Kujima
Yuji Odaka
Migiwasan Kato
Noriko Maki
Akiko Niwa
Mina Aoe
Yoko Koganei
Asao Uchida
Shuroku Takuma
Tatsuya Fuji
Masuda
Ichiro Kijima

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Mio Ezaki
Writers: Ryuzo Nakanishi
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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82 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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ERA

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57 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 6

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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CAST

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Akira Kobayashi and Yukiyo Toake and Yuji Odaka carry the top of the cast.

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IMDB entry: tt0205302 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Mio Ezaki directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

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182 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
257 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Akira Kobayashi and Yukiyo Toake and Yuji Odaka carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt0205302 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.