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The Angry Street
JAPAN · 1950

The Angry Street

Mikio Naruse
con artists urban crime romantic entanglement gang involvement social responsibility
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Synopsis

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Sudo becomes gradually involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmoth

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