Fright Time

Crime

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Katsuki Iwauchi

Status Released

Release Date 1964-02-01

Storyline

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns it’s the wrong Yamamoto, he still refuses to leave and threatens everyone with nitroglycerin. Tension peaks when the real detective’s wife arrives, but a quick intervention stops disaster, leaving the worker broken by loss.