Masahiro Makino – Matte ita otoko AKA The Man Who Waited (1942)

boblipton@IMDB wrote:
At a popular resort during the Edo Period, a man is murdered. As everyone gossips about the matter and waits for the samurai in charge of the investigation to do something, honeymooning Hideko Takamine takes time out to solve the crime.

It’s a pleasantly run mystery, about on par with some of the better American B series. The well known performers include Kazuo Hasegawa, Ureo Egawa (as the murder victim) and Reizaburô Yamamoto. I was interested in the question of whether this can be considered a historical mystery, a sub-genere that arguably had its roots in the Chinese ‘Judge Dee’ novels of the late 800s. However, except for some costuming and the means of murder — arrows — I think it’s pretty much a standard mystery with a hotel setting.

I’d still like to see more of Miss Takamine as a detective.

The Man Who Waited (1942).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 37mn
Size: 	1.39 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	696x476 ~> 696x535
Aspect ratio:  	1.299
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 795 Kbps
BPP: 	0.226
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/7B8530F70E3E1BC/The_Man_Who_Waited_(1942).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0DF318833D0783B/The_Man_Who_Waited_(1942).srt

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English