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I Am Waiting (俺は待ってるぜ, Ore wa matteru ze) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara. "I Am Waiting" was part of the Nikkatsu film studio's wave of Japanese noir films, in order to compete with popular American and French films in Japanese box offices.
I Am Waiting: Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara. With Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Isamu Kosugi, Kenjirô Uemura. A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
Feb 27, 2021 · I Am Waiting. In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
I Am Waiting. In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
A former boxer (Yujiro Ishihara) helps a beautiful and mysterious woman (Mie Kitahara) who's on the run from a gangster.
I Am Waiting is a rain and seawater soaked noir that initially favors mood over exposition. But this is a noir after all, so the second half takes a turn into detective land, with Ishihara’s kind-hearted ex-fighter chasing clues to his missing brother, an old boxing medal, and a comically hard-to-find man named Takeda, who holds the…
In Koreyoshi Kurahara's directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
