Three Fingered Detective (1947)

Original title

三本指の男

Directed by

Sadatsugu Matsuda

Genre

horror

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A private detective investigates a locked-room murder in postwar Japan. The film adapts a famous mystery novel that helped start a boom in detective stories.

classicsuspensefulretromoodyatmosphericintriguingnoir-ish

What happens

『三本指の男』（さんぼんゆびのおとこ）は、1947年（昭和22年）に製作、1947年12月9日公開の日本映画。時代劇スターの片岡千恵蔵が私立探偵の金田一耕助に扮したミステリー映画である。原作は横溝正史がミステリー雑誌『宝石』に連載した『本陣殺人事件』。戦後の本格ミステリーブームのきっかけをつくった作品として知られる。映画化作品も大ヒットし、東映でシリーズ化され、片岡千恵蔵の主演で6本の映画が製作された。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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