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Release Date:
19 March 1961 (Japan)
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Plot Keywords:
Cyanide
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Train Ride
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Poisoning
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Confession
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Prostitute
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Awards:
1 win
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(6 articles)
This week's new film events
(From The Guardian - Film News. 25 January 2013, 10:00 PM, PST)
Japan Cuts 2010: Zero Focus Review
(From Twitch. 11 July 2010, 7:00 AM, PDT)
Japan Cuts 2010 films announced
(From Nippon Cinema. 28 May 2010, 2:10 PM, PDT)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 25 January 2013, 10:00 PM, PST)
Japan Cuts 2010: Zero Focus Review
(From Twitch. 11 July 2010, 7:00 AM, PDT)
Japan Cuts 2010 films announced
(From Nippon Cinema. 28 May 2010, 2:10 PM, PDT)
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Well photographed monotony
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Cast
(in credits order) | Yoshiko Kuga | ... | Teiko Uhara |
 | Hizuru Takachiho | ... | Sachiko Murota / Emmy |
| Ineko Arima | ... | Hisako Tanuma |
| Kôji Nanbara | ... | Kenichi Uhara |
| Kô Nishimura | ... | Sotaro Uhara |
| Sadako Sawamura | ... | Sotaro's wife |
| Yoshi Katô | ... | Mr. Murota |
| Tatsuo Nagai | ... | Lt. Kitamura |
| Mutsuko Sakura | ||
| Takanobu Hozumi | ... | Mr. Honda |
| Hisao Toake | ... | Saeki |
| Masao Oda | ||
| Takamaru Sasaki | ||
| Toyo Takahashi | ... | Teiko's mother |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Zenichi Inagawa | ||
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| Yoshitaro Nomura | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Shinobu Hashimoto | ||
| Seichô Matsumoto | novel | |
| Yôji Yamada | ||
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| Ichinosuke Hozumi | .... | producer | |
| Shigeru Wakatsuki | .... | planner | |
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| Yasushi Akutagawa | |||
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| Takashi Kawamata | |||
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| Kôji Uno | |||
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- Shochiku Company (1961) (Japan) (theatrical)
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"Zero Focus" - USA (DVD title)
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Japan:95 min
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Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the car windows when Mrs. Matsura drives away near the end.See more »
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This was the first film I had seen by Nomura and constituted a major disappointment. Nomura appears to belong to the static variety of Japanese directors, preferring lingering and beautiful black and white shots over the bravura editing of contemporaries such as Seijun Suzuki or early Kurosawa. This approach really does not fit the material which is a stultifyingly dull and procedural mystery story that at no point rises above the generic, or generates any palpable tension or danger.
A point of comparison would be Rebecca by Hitchcock, mostly because of its focus on coastal scenery and echoes of the past affecting a hurried marriage. But this movie lacks any of the sexual or psychological aspects that make Rebecca so interesting. Some of the dialogue and minor performances are appalling. At one point a coastguard turns to a distraught bereaved wife and advises, straightfaced, "Why don't you walk to Noto cliff, It is very beautiful and a common spot to commit suicide." How did that ever get beyond the editing suite? Even the final exposition is ridiculously forced and overlong that I was tempted to fast forward to the end of the ending. One to miss