1957 · noir · drama
I Am Waiting
Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara1h 31m1957
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
Our read: I Am Waiting (1957) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded noir · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured noir / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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