Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.

Credits

Koreyoshi KuraharaDirector

Jun HamamuraNozaki

Kō NishimuraMatakichi Nakaike

Nobuo KanekoKyosuke Takita

Yōko KozonoKumiko