Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.

• Nikkatsu Corporation
• Jun Hamamura
• Kō Nishimura
• Nobuo Kaneko
• Yōko Kozono
• Kōjirō Kusanagi
• Mari Shiraki
• Zenji Yamada
• Tomio Aoki