Hachijikan no kyôfu

After a typhoon causes a landslide which blocks the railroad tracks and prevent the passenger train from going any further, a few people decide to take their chances aboard an old bus even though they realize that the roads are quite hazardous. To make matters even worse they are informed by a radio broadcast that two extremely dangerous bank robbers are somewhere in between where they are now and their destination. But since these passengers are in a hurry, they decide to proceed on bad roads into the pitch-black night and take their chances. Unfortunately, the thugs they were warned about do indeed intercept the bus and from their point on their lives are in great jeopardy. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film didn't resonate with me all that much due in large part to the exaggerated drama displayed by some of the characters. Of course, it is also possible that the director was attempting to use these characters as symbols of the current society in post-war Japan but, even so, I still wasn't that impressed. That's not to say that this was a bad film by any means, but again, I just couldn't get that interested in it, and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.