After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
