1968 · crime · noir · youth
Blackmail Is My Life
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku1h 30m1968
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.
Our read: Blackmail Is My Life (1968) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · noir · youth entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / noir, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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