The New York Times calls this electrifying film – often hailed as brilliantly unpredictable, especially in terms of genre – one of the best detective thrillers of all time. Based on a novel by the American master of detective fiction Ed McBain, the legendary Japanese filmmaker moved the story, which may or may not be about kidnapping and blackmail, from Manhattan to Yokohama and cast iconic actor Toshiro Mifune in one of the leads as a high-ranking executive faced with a nerve-wracking moral dilemma.