Satan’s Town

After getting out of prison, a gang boss decides to pull off a heist, but the team he assembles has multiple competing ambitions and scant loyalty. To viewers who are familiar with only Suzuki’s late Nikkatsu work, Satan’s Town may be the earliest work of recognizable Suzuki style. Here his formal experiments extend to a sequence shot upside down in the reflection of a swimming pool and another constructed from freeze-frames, while his trademark black humor shows itself in the numerous murders depicted and in the film’s climactic moments.