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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its cool, painstaking cat-and-mouse construction mirrors the pleasure of watching a meticulous outsider and determined authorities race through an increasingly constricted political landscape.
02
Why this pick
An alienated former soldier launches into stylized urban violence in this bleak, nervy Japanese thriller, sharing the original’s anti-establishment charge and volatile leading performance.
03
Why this pick
A detective’s methodical pursuit becomes quietly destabilizing in Kurosawa’s sparse, uncanny Tokyo. It preserves the uneasy investigator-versus-enigma tension without relying on conventional action.
04
Why this pick
A botched crime expands into a sweaty media event and police standoff, balancing dark humor, social friction, and sympathy for an impulsive man caught in his own escalating scheme.
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Why this pick
Its deadpan Tokyo brutality and fractured cop-criminal pursuit offer a similarly unsentimental view of institutions, punctuated by sudden violence and a grimly off-kilter sense of humor.
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01 / THE STORY
Makoto Kido (Kenji Sawada), a high school science and chemistry teacher, has decided to build his own atomic bomb. Before stealing plutonium isotopes from Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant, he is involved in the botched Carjacking of one of his school's buses during a field trip. Along with a police detective, Yamashita (Bunta Sugawara), he is able to overcome the hijacker and is publicly hailed as a hero.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Asai
Suspect on tv news
Police Officer
Loan Collector
Makoto Kido
