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We're closing out our Japanese Noir series with THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE, the 90s noir send-up that kicked off the Maiku Hama trilogy!October 10th screening with include a post-film discussion panel with some very special guests!
Trailer:
Masatoshi Nagase stars as Yokohama private eye Maiku Hama—a Japanese approximation of Mike Hammer, pulp fiction writer Mickey Spillane’s hardboiled Kiss Me Deadly P.I.—in Hayashi’s offbeat monochromatic neo noir. A likably gawkish semblance of cool dressed in Sun Tribe attire, Nagase’s cash-strapped underdog gets in way over his head as he tries to locate the missing brother of a Taiwanese immigrant, finding himself caught in the crosshairs of something more sinister: a spat between warring gang factions from Taipei and Hong Kong. Indebted to American detective noir and Nikkatsu action (a legendary chipmunk-cheeked Nikkatsu star even appears as Hama’s mentor), Hayashi and Nagase effortlessly revive the genre in this stylized distillation of the era, delivering a sleek, fast-paced detective story chockablock with thrills and double crosses.
1994 | 92 min. | Japan
Dir. Kaizo Hayashi
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Pop's Art Theater, 619 6th Ave NW, Rochester, MN 55901-2672, United States
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