Take Aim at the Police Van

(1960) Take Aim At The Police Van/ 'Jûsangô taihisen' yori: Sono gosôsha o nerae (In Japanese with English subtitles) CRIME DRAMA/ MYSTERY/ ACTION

The set up regards a prison guard, Daijirô Tamon (Michitarô Mizushima) getting suspended for six months as a result of failing to protect two prisoners. He then goes on an odyssey to find out why. First he would interview another former inmate prisoner who was also there by the name of Gorô Kashima (Shôichi Ozawa), as Tamon realizes he scribbled something onto the window on the bus they both riding on before the other two inmates were executed. And he tries to follow him after seeing the name Aki written on a piece of paper. Leading him to uncover two objectives which is to find out who was that lady he had seen on the fateful night during the bus ride and the identity of Aki who we find out is actually Akiba.

Despite it's short running time of less than a hour and a half, this was quite boring until it got to the very end with the gun shootings to be quite relative.