Take Aim at the Police Van
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Kazuo Shimada (Story)
Mari Shiraki
Misako Watanabe
Shinsuke Ashida
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 Japanese film poster | |
| Directed by | Seijun Suzuki |
| Written by | Shinichi Sekizawa Kazuo Shimada (Story) |
| Produced by | Ryoji Motegi |
| Starring | Michitaro Mizushima Mari Shiraki Misako Watanabe Shinsuke Ashida |
| Cinematography | Shigeyoshi Mine |
| Edited by | Akira Suzuki |
| Music by | Koichi Kawabe |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Janus Films[1] |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Take Aim at the Police Van (十三号待避線より: その護送車を狙え, Jūsangō taihisen yori: Sono gosōsha o nerae) is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Michitaro Mizushima.
- Michitaro Mizushima as Daijirô Tamon
- Mari Shiraki as Tsunako Andô
- Misako Watanabe as Yûko Hamajima
- Shinsuke Ashida as Jûbei Hamajima
- Ryôhei Uchida as Kuji
- Akira Hisamatsu as Masaki
- Shôichi Ozawa as Gorô Kashima
Production
The Nikkatsu Company conceived Take Aim at the Police Van as a borderless action film, a studio subgenre with internationalized characters and setting. Contract director Seijun Suzuki had previously worked mainly on pop song films, a youth subgenre in which the films were built around an already popular song, and yakuza films with an occasional film noir bent.[2] It also marked the beginning of his practice of co-writing his films.[3] Leading man Michitaro Mizushima had also starred in Suzuki's Underworld Beauty two years earlier. He was atypical of borderless action films by virtue of his age, forty-eight at the time, as they typically featured Nikkatsu's younger stars such as Yujiro Ishihara and Akira Kobayashi.[2]
