Stakeout

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 Stakeout 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.

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