Kihachi Okamoto – Dobunezumi sakusen aka Operation Sewer Rats (1962)
Very entertaining Kihachi Okamoto feature, and while it is a WWII film, it is also a tribute to John Ford’s Westerns, set in Manchuria. In addition to the regulars in the series, a fine performance by the always lovely Kumi Mizuno.
One of Okamoto’s trademarks is his recessive staging, i.e. the big foreground wide-angle look, the kind of wide-screen composition which is quite common in spaghetti westerns, particularly those of Sergio Leone’s (partly due to the technical problems of the Techniscope format, widely used in Italy in that period). We could notice this signature in Okamoto’s late 50s films already, that is, a few years earlier than Leone and other western directors.
Operation.Sewer.Rats.1962.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi
750 MB (768,776 KB / 787,226,624 bytes)
XviD ISO MPEG-4
1:41:58 @ 23.976 fps
937 kbps 0.214 bpp
672 x 272 2.471 (42:17)
VBR MP3 Mono 80 kbps
[Average DRF/quantizer is 2.51]
https://nitro.download/view/B4923868D8CFCC5/Operation.Sewer.Rats.1962.DVDRip.XviD-MNAUCE.avi
Language(s):Japanese and a bit Japanese Chinese
Subtitles:Japanese Hardsubs for the bit Japanese Chinese Only
