Journal d'un voleur de Shinjuku

A pickpocket's confession reads like a manga in this neon-soaked Tokyo quarter. A bookstore clerk with a side hustle in shoplifting crosses paths with a kabuki performer moonlighting as a thief. The trio's light-fingered romance lingers like cigarette smoke.

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Nagisa Ōshima directed Journal d'un voleur de Shinjuku in 1969. See Nagisa Ōshima's full filmography, where to start with Nagisa Ōshima, or where to go after you've seen everything by Nagisa Ōshima.

Journal d'un voleur de Shinjuku was released in 1969 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 96 minutes.