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Stooky on High and Low:

A rich shoe executive is extorted for a massive amount of money in Kurosawa’s effective Chandler based thriller. Toshiro Mifune plays the manliest shoe salesman I’ve seen (kinda like a heel & soul samurai) who is planning a takeover of his company when the inopportune kidnapping of his chauffeurs son puts a crimp in his manly endeavours. Plumbing new depths of his character and unleashing a torrent of manly Mifune utterances. The cops are soon alerted introducing an element of composure to the shoe-based bravado...

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