Critic Reviews
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Eric Melin, Scene-Stealers.com
Director Masahiro Shinoda takes lots of chances, using close-ups and off-kilter edits to deepen his characters. A jazzy, avant-garde score throws things even more off balance.
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Sean Gandert, Paste Magazine
Pale Flower sits comfortably as one of the darker noir films ever made
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Chris Cabin, Slant Magazine
A lively yet bleak allegory for post-war Japan and a totem of the Japanese New Wave, the underappreciated Pale Flower finally gets a fitting transfer from the Criterion Collection.
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Christopher Long, Movie Metropolis
They get no kicks from champagne.
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Anton Bitel, Eye for Film
a lost yakuza classic, part Bob Le Flambeur, part Rebel Without a Cause, but with an ecstatic blankness all its own.
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Cast
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Ryô Ikebeas Murakami -
Mariko Kagaas Saeko -
Takashi Fujiki
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