Smashing the 0-Line (Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1960)

This crime thriller features one of the most nihilist characters in Suzuki’s early films: Katori, a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister? With its jazzy musical score and sordid milieu of drug smuggling and human trafficking, Smashing the 0-Line is one of Suzuki’s darkest urban tales.

Part of The Films of Seijun Suzuki at BAMPFA.

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