1977 · action · police · manga
Doberman Cop
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku1h 30m1977
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grisly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth.
Our read: Doberman Cop (1977) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · police · manga entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / police, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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- intense
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