Film / 1964

Fright Time

Name: Fright Time
Genre: Crime
Released: 1964-02-01
Duration: 88 min
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yūzō Kayama, Yuriko Hoshi, Susumu Kurobe, Takashi Shimura

Regia Katsuki Iwauchi

Crime

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns it’s the wrong Yamamoto, he still refuses to leave and threatens everyone with nitroglycerin. Tension peaks when the real detective’s wife arrives, but a quick intervention stops disaster, leaving the worker broken by loss.