Le Guet-apens

Dusty Tokyo alley. Late summer. A single buzzing neon sign. Two cops on a clumsy, desperate surveillance job hope a killer will emerge to meet his old girlfriend. The banality of evil, as seen in a minor, early-career Nomura procedural.

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Yoshitarō Nomura directed Le Guet-apens in 1958. See Yoshitarō Nomura's full filmography, where to start with Yoshitarō Nomura, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yoshitarō Nomura.

Le Guet-apens was released in 1958 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 116 minutes.