
08/26/1961 (JP) • 1h 24m
Overview
The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A hard-boiled noir thriller where two dogged newspaper reporters' investigation of the mysterious death of an innocent elementary school teacher in an extremely remote area of Japan leads them through a web of corporate fraud, an inbred village, bundles of toilet paper, and flatfoots with something to hide as the bodies pile up.
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