Crazed Fruit (1956)

Crazed Fruit (1956) is a Japanese juvenile threat teenage tearaway dark fraternal love triangle tale of youth culture as it recreationally began to develop across the post world war world sexpolitation feature  jazz steeped boating long hot summer murder noir drama of sex and restless petty criminal passion, and absolutely great blues trumpet music, and strange class use of English, which is also known as Juvenile Jungle, and is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Shintaro Ishihara, the older brother of cast member Yujiro Ishihara, and is about two brothers who fall in love with the same woman and the resulting conflict and which was later known as a foundational work of the Sun Tribe genre, directed by Kō Nakahira (as Yasushi Nakahira), and starring Masahiko Tsugawa, Mie Kitahara and Yujiro Ishihara.

Stray Dog (1949)

Stray Dog (1949) is an Akira Kurosawa buddy-cop Japanese film noir undercover heatwave detective police procedural homicide back-street illicit arms market absolute classic of Japanese noir, that stars  Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura.

It was Kurosawa's second film of 1949 produced by the Film Art Association and released by Shintoho and while considered a noir, it should also be fully considered as a fully formed detective movie and indeed you should know it as being among the earliest films in that genre.

I Am Waiting (1957)

I Am Waiting (1957) is a violent love noir boxing and lonely youth alienation revenge seeker tale from the Japanese noir boom of the mid to late 1950s.

It is seeker and mood noir, with many a pose of a beautiful young man in peril and even more poses of the beautiful young suicidal chanteuse wanderer, who hang around the docks, most amazingly of all in the young hero's completely empty and almost abandoned bar restaurant.

This dive of a bar is only metres from the industrially smoky and noisy dock railway and likewise only metres from the water too, truly the most horrendous place to play any kind of trade.

Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)

Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) is a borderless youth prison guard pursuit cat and mouse violent revenge noir-bent thriller that was made in Japan in 1960.

Police Van serves slab of cold prison guard in a preemptive strike against global cop culture, fresh for the 1960s and with all the right style.

The reviews for Take Aim at the Police Van provide a nuanced perspective on the film, reflecting both admiration for Seijun Suzuki's distinct directorial style and some reservations about certain aspects of the plot and character development. Seijun Suzuki, known for his unconventional approach to filmmaking, is described as one of the more eccentric Japanese directors of the 1960s, and Take Aim at the Police Van is seen as a reflection of his penchant for pushing the boundaries of traditional film noir.