Main Cast: Carl Boehm, Keiko Kishi, Barbara Lass, Charles Vanel, Michel Vitold
Release Year: 1963
Country: US/IT/FR
Run Time: 79 minutes
Plot
Ever since the original Rififi set up the postulate of a spectacular robbery, there have been cinematic "Rififis" in Amsterdam, Paris, Panama, and in this case, Tokyo. A band of thieves get together in Japan's capital to plan a major heist of only one single jewel -- a huge diamond stored in a vault in the Bank of Tokyo. Preparations for the heist are not without problems, and in the end only three of the thieves manage to get into the vault where the diamond is stored. Thanks to modern bank security, the next problem is how to get out of the vault. Directed by Jacques Deray, this melodramatic crime caper shines in the special technical effects department when the electronic gismos that protect bank vaults are highlighted, but the illumination does not extend to human characters in quite the same way. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Dante Maggio; Eiji Okada; Eijiro Yanagi - Ishimoto; Masao Oda
Credit
Kazue Hirataka - Art Director, Jacques Deray - Director, Albert Jurgenson - Editor, Georges Delerue - Composer (Music Score), René Daudin - Makeup, Tadashi Arakami - Cinematographer, Jacques Juranville - Production Manager, Jacques Bar - Producer, José Giovanni - Dialogue Writer, Jacques Deray - Screenwriter, José Giovanni - Screenwriter, Rodolphe M. Arlaud - Screenwriter, Auguste Le Breton - Screenwriter
