Take Aim at the Police Van (その護送車を狙え　Sono gosôsha wo nerae: 'Jûsangô taihisen' yori) is a 1960 action

Action film

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

 Japanese film

Cinema of Japan

The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...

 directed by Seijun Suzuki

Seijun Suzuki

, born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility...

, part of the Nikkatsu film studio's wave of Japanese noir films, made to compete with popular American and French films in Japanese box offices.

This film was made available in North America when Janus Films released a special set of Nikkatsu Noir films as part of the Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection

The Criterion Collection is a video-distribution company selling "important classic and contemporary films" to film aficionados. The Criterion series is noted for helping to standardize the letterbox format for home video, bonus features, and special editions...

, also including I Am Waiting, Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife is a 1958 action Japanese film directed by Toshio Masuda. ""Rusty Knife"" was part of the Nikkatsu film studio's wave of Japanese noir films, in order to compete with popular American and French films in Japanese box offices...

, and A Colt Is My Passport

A Colt Is My Passport

is a 1967 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Nomura for the Nikkatsu Corporation.-Synopsis:It stars Joe Shishido as a hitman who, along with his sidekick played by Jerry Fujio, is hired by the yakuza to eliminate a rival gang's boss. The two are captured after the job, escape and are waylaid...

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Cast

• Michitaro Mizushima
• Mari Shiraki
• Misako Watanabe
• Shinsuke Ashida
• Shoichi Ozawa
• Ryohei Uchida
• Toru Abe
• Tatsuo Matsushita
• Saburo Hiromatsu
• Reiko Arai
• Toyo Fukuda
• Kotoe Hatsui
• Hiroshi Osa