Violent Panic: The Big Crash
– Like its title, this crazy Toei film from 1976 falls neatly into two parts. The first details the ex..
Like its title, this crazy Toei film from 1976 falls neatly into two parts. The first details the exploits of two bank robbers who specialize in "smash and grab" style heists. Evidently, Japanese banks of the period left huge piles of cash laying around on filing cabinets and end tables. The thieves dream of escaping Japan and going to Brazil. Charismatic lead Tsunehiko Watase gets involved with Miki Sugimoto, a strange girl with a severe mental problem. After a bank robbery goes wrong and his partner is killed, Watase is assaulted by his dead partner's thuggish brother who wants the loot.
28 Feb 1976
Japanese
Kinji Fukasaku
Kinji Fukasaku (screenplay), Fumio Kônami (screenplay), Yasuzo Tanaka (screenplay)
Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Yayoi Watanabe, Hideo Murota
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. But in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.