Pale Flower: The Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] Reviews

By the 1960s, film noir as a genre had become relatively passé in America with only occasional forays into the dark, neon-infused world of crooks and crime, but it was alive and well and living in Japan. Masahiro Shinoda’s eccentric and altogether provocative Pale Flower is prime film noir fodder. And like the best films noir from previous decades, the classifications of heroes and heroines in this movie don’t have much meaning here, swept away by a focus on criminals and their ultimate aims: making money in any way possible with no thought of the consequences for bystanders, either innocent or guilty. 

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