Black Tight Killers

Former assistant director to maverick auteur Seijun Suzuki, Yasuharu Hasebe made his directorial debut with this lurid, bizarre gangster-spy yarn. The film opens on Daisuke Honda (played by matinee idol Akira Kobayashi), a hard-bitten war photographer fresh from the trenches of Vietnam. On the plane back to Tokyo, he happens upon stewardess Yuriko Sawanouchi (Chieko Matsubara, who also starred in Suzuki's masterpiece Tokyo Drifter) and soon our suave protagonist is entertaining the well-coi...