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Director
  
Koreyoshi Kurahara

Music director
  
Masaru Satoh

Duration
  

Country
  
Japan

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Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Producer
  
Takiko Mizunoe

Writer
  
Shintaro Ishihara

Language
  
Japanese

I Am Waiting movie poster

Release date
  
October 20, 1957

Cast
  
Yûjirô Ishihara
(Jôji Shimaki),
Mie Kitahara
(Saeko),
Isamu Kosugi
(Uchiyama),
Kôjirô Kusanagi
(Takeda),
Hideaki Nitani
(Shibata elder),
Kenjiro Uemura
(Police detective)

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,
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,
A Colt Is My Passport
,
Take Aim at the Police Van
,
Rusty Knife
,
Cruel Gun Story

Sleep no more i am waiting 1957


I Am Waiting (俺は待ってるぜ, Ore wa matteru ze) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara. "I Am Waiting" was part of the Nikkatsu film studio's wave of Japanese noir films, in order to compete with popular American and French films in Japanese box offices. This film was made available in North America when Janus Films released a special set of Nikkatsu Noir films as part of the Criterion Collection. These films include Rusty Knife, Take Aim at the Police Van, Cruel Gun Story and A Colt Is My Passport.

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"I am Waiting" was one of Nikkatsu's earlier successes.

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Plot

On a dark night, Jōji Shimaki (Yujiro Ishihara) an ex-boxer, meets Saeko (Mie Kitahara), a club singer on the verge of suicide. They live and work together at a restaurant where they begin to fall in love, struggling to escape from their dark pasts. Jōji deals with his failure as a boxer, shamed of having been barred from the ring. Saeko hopes to hide from gangsters who have forced her to work at their cabaret. She seeks his help as she is trying to run away from her gangster boss who is forcing her to continue working even though she no longer has a talented voice due to illnesses.

They both find their source of support in their sole dreams: he wishes to go to Brazil to join his brother on a ranch, and she dreams of finding love. During the quest for his brother, Jōji discovers the horrible truth of the situation. His brother never made it to Brazil. Instead, a group of gangsters killed him for his money. Continuously pushed away by gangsters, they learn that dreams are easily crushed.

Cast

  • Yujiro Ishihara -Jôji Shimaki
  • Mie Kitahara - Saeko
  • Hideaki Nitani -Shibata (older)
  • Isamu Kosugi -Uchiyama
  • Ken Hatano - Shibata (younger)
  • Kôjirô Kusanagi - Takeda
  • Naoki Sugiura - Shibata's brother
  • Kenjiro Uemura - Police detective

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