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The Horizon Glitters 地平線がぎらぎらっ (Chiheisen ga Giragira) (1960) dir Michiyoshi Doi w/Jun Tatara, Shigeru Amachi, Ryuji Oki, Saburo Otsuji, Yuzo Harumi, Jerry Fujio [89 min; Digital; in Japanese w/English subtitles]
Michiyoshi Doi’s black comedy about a prison break gone horribly wrong is unlike anything else Shintoho was making at the time. Released just before the studio’s collapse, THE HORIZON GLITTERS is a brilliant one-off made with freedom and energy that verges on the anarchic. With the surly “Capone” (Tatara), as boss, a group of prison cellmates maintain a rough harmony – until a new prisoner (Fujio) is tossed into their midst. When the new guy announces that he knows the whereabouts of a large cache of diamonds, escape is in order. Who will meet their fate before they reach the diamonds? What lies at the journey’s end? The glitter draws our heroes on – but the horizon keeps receding.
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