The Perfect Game

1958, 1h 33min -

In recent years, director Toshio Masuda has worked on the international stage with action-oriented movies such as Tora! Tora! Tora! and the Space Cruiser Yamato films. But he began his career in the middle-late 1950s with The Perfect Game (aka Kanzen Na Yuugi), a shockingly amoral tale of delinquency, rape, and murder that was to Japan, what In Cold Blood was to American cinema. It was among the earliest works in the career of a director who has generated little except major box office hits in Japan since the 1950s. Show more

"The Perfect Game" — movie produced in Japan and released in 1958. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.2 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 33min. "The Perfect Game" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!