Mist and Shadows (1961)

The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A hard-boiled noir thriller where two dogged newspaper reporters' investigation of the mysterious death of an innocent elementary school teacher in an extremely remote area of Japan leads them through a web of corporate fraud, an inbred village, bundles of toilet paper, and flatfoots with something to hide as the bodies pile up.

Released Aug. 26, 1961 84 min None+

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Keywords: imdb.high-anxiety, imdb.fraud, imdb.based-on-novel

Production Companies: Toei Company

Country: Japan
Production Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese