Nikkatsu Films

Here’s an essay and a collection of films I wrote on the Japanese film studio Nikkatsu and the series of films it made during the Sixties and early Seventies. Hope you find a few hidden gems in here you would have never have seen otherwise. Couldn’t have written it without the amazing theorists and authors listen at the bottom

Dark shadows, youthful sensibilities, deadly Gangsters, modern idealism and foreboding film noir atmosphere. These are the characteristics one sees in the films of the Nikkatsu studio during the late Fifties and in to the Sixties. The films Nikkatsu produced during this time were elemental sums of...