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Akai hankachi

  • 19641964
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
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Akai hankachi (1964)
ActionCrime
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved mar... Read allA hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his... Read allA hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
120
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
373,215
57,533
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    • Director
      • Toshio Masuda
    • Writers
      • Toshio Masuda
      • Ei Ogawa
      • Iwao Yamazaki(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Yûjirô Ishihara
      • Ruriko Asaoka
      • Hideaki Nitani
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    • Director
      • Toshio Masuda
    • Writers
      • Toshio Masuda
      • Ei Ogawa
      • Iwao Yamazaki(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Yûjirô Ishihara
      • Ruriko Asaoka
      • Hideaki Nitani
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    • 4Critic reviews
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    Yûjirô Ishihara
    Yûjirô Ishihara
    Ruriko Asaoka
    Hideaki Nitani
    Nobuo Kaneko
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    Tamio Kawaji
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    Shinsuke Ashida
    Shinsuke Ashida
    • Director
      • Toshio Masuda
    • Writers
      • Toshio Masuda
      • Ei Ogawa
      • Iwao Yamazaki(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      1964 was a big year at Nikkatsu for their so-called mood/action noir crime/romance melodramas, and 'RED HANDKERCHIEF' was one of the biggest hits in this popular sub-genre.
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      Referenced in Best in Action: 1964 (2020)

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    Great film for fans of Japanese Karaoke
    First, this film seems to be available in Japan only. I purchased mine on a recent trip to Tokyo. I believe it was about 3600 yen (around $32) It is region 2 encoded and will plan only on "all region" machines or machines imported from Japan (I have a machine from Japan)

    There are no subtitles or alternate language track, so you need to be able to speak Japanese to appreciate the movie.

    What is the main interest? The hero Mikami is played by Ishihara Yujiro.

    Ishihara Yujiro (now deceased) was the brother of the current outspoken governor of Tokyo, Ishihara Shintaro who cowrote "the Japan that can say no." about 15 years ago.

    Ishihara Yujiro is a sort of John Wayne for Japan - the man's man. The movie theme song is one of the most famous "Enka" Karaoke songs.

    Plot: opening with a criminal running through foggy back alleys of the Yokohama harbor. Elite policeman Mikami (Ishihara) and his partner Ishizuka (Nitani) in hot pursuit. The crook stashes a mysterious briefcase in a little "Oden" stand and runs on, only to be hit and killed by a truck. As the police grill the elderly owner of the Oden stand, Mikami goes to notify his daughter (Asaoka) who thinks her father is drunk again and sends Mikami back with a sweater for her father. During the interrogation, it comes out that Mikami is going to be on Japan's olympic pistol team. The father won't talk. As Ishizuka walks the old man across the courtyard, suddenly the old man turns, knocks Ishizuka over, grabs his gun and begins firing wildly. Rushing from the building, ace-shot Mikami pulls his service revolver and kills the old man with one shot. Needless to say, the daughter is furious... too bad, because she was Mikami's love interest. In the ensuing scandal, Mikami is forced to resign. Four years later, real-man Mikami is working in the Hokkaido snows on a dam construction project drilling holes in the cliff when the police investigator Tsuchiya arrives to tell him that there is something peculiar about his former parnter's subsequent financial success and marriage to the old man's daughter...
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    • Release date
      • January 3, 1964 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Czerwona chusteczka
    • Production company
      • Nikkatsu
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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