If you loved Take Aim at the Police Van, try Underworld Beauty

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Seijun Suzuki, and they both carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Take Aim at the Police Van, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Underworld Beauty is

Neon haze on late '50s backstreets, an electric piano hums. Former yakuza Miyamoto emerges with stolen diamonds clenched in his palm. A bullet wound’s scar still fresh on his fixer’s chest, Oyane’s knuckles split on the mahogany table already counting Miyamoto’s glitter again.

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