Take Aim at the Police Van
Take Aim at the Police Van , Jsang taihisen yori Sono gossha o nerae? is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Michitaro Mizushima.
Take Aim at the Police Van was released in Japan by the Nikkatsu Company on January 27, 1960. It was subsequently released in a fivefilm DVD box set, titled Nikkatsu Noir, in North America on August 25, 2009, under The Criterion Collections Eclipse label. The set focuses on noirthemed Nikkatsu Action films and also includes I Am Waiting 1957, Rusty Knife 1958, Cruel Gun Story 1964 and A Colt Is My Passport 1967 with liner notes by film historian Chuck Stephens.The A.V. Clubs Noel Murray felt the film holds up against contemporary Hollywood film noirs. Rating it less abstract than Seijun Suzukis films of a few years later, he highlighted its vim and social candor and named it a testament to how artists pumping out quickie exploitation product can often work in truths about their times that prestige filmmakers cant. ........
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