Narazumono, whose translation in the English version is An Outlaw, is a gangster film in the lone vigilante style, very popular in the 60s, but with some characteristics that distinguish it, not always for the better, from other darker works, such as that characterized by the new Japanese wave.
The use of color, in a lively and bright tone, which clearly distances it from the somber black and white tones of classic noir and even from the new wave, that loved the black and white, although elevated to the showy splendor of the large format. Here, color played to the detriment of the work, which lost style and became commonplace.
On the positive side, we have the fact that the film was almost entirely filmed in Hong Kong and Macau, in the 60s, thus giving an interesting historical view of these two cities, in colonial times, cosmopolitan and densely populated the British colony, empty, provincial and almost miserable the portuguese.
The use of color, in a lively and bright tone, which clearly distances it from the somber black and white tones of classic noir and even from the new wave, that loved the black and white, although elevated to the showy splendor of the large format. Here, color played to the detriment of the work, which lost style and became commonplace.
On the positive side, we have the fact that the film was almost entirely filmed in Hong Kong and Macau, in the 60s, thus giving an interesting historical view of these two cities, in colonial times, cosmopolitan and densely populated the British colony, empty, provincial and almost miserable the portuguese.