![]() ![]() Japanese film critics praised the film by calling it "both a superb parody of the gangster genre and a masterful exercise in style and storytelling". Cinematographer Kuriyama Shuji was praised for implementing the change of camerawork from high-action scenes to love scenes. The film was commercially successful and was declared a hit at the Japanese box office. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was hailed by some of them as one of the best works of Hiroyuki Tanaka. "Postman Blues is a film in which absolutely all the characters are so completely crazy that neutralize their absurd plans against each other and the film may find itself with sleepwalking to an end, which must appear in a very bizarre way as logical." Shimizu Hiroshi as Detective Domon Taizo.All this marked the beginning of problems for Sawaki. Meanwhile, Naguchi discovers that the finger he had cut was no longer in his house. The police profiler (Tomoro Taguchi), who was following Sawaki, comes to the conclusion that Sawaki is a member of the criminal gang. He meets a hit man Joe ( Ren Osugi) there who tells him how he had won the contract killing competition called the "Killer of killers". He rushes to the hospital to see the girl Kyoko (Kyoko Toyama) and falls in love with her. On reaching home, Sawaki finds a suicide note in his bag written by a cancer patient to her aunt. ![]() Viewing his relationship with Noguchi, the police think that Sawaki is a member of the yakuza and follow him. His finger, which he cut off as a symbol of loyalty to his gang, also accidentally falls into the bag. During his stay Noguchi puts a package of drugs into Sawaki's letter bag. ![]() One day Sawaki delivers a letter to him and stays at his place for a while. Noguchi was being spied by the police for a long time. He has an old friend Noguchi (Keisuke Horibe) who, unknown to him, had become a yakuza. Sawaki (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) is a postman. Hiroyuki Tanaka won the New Blood award at the 1999 Cognac Festival du Film Policier for the film. The film was released in Japan in 1997 and later in Italy in 1999 and Brazil in 2003. It tells the story of a postman (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) who is mistaken by the police as a criminal. The film features Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Keisuke Horibe, Ren Ohsugi and Kyōko Tōyama in the lead roles. Postman Blues ( ポストマン・ブルース, Posutoman Burūsu) is a 1997 Japanese criminal action comedy-drama film directed and written by Hiroyuki Tanaka under the name Sabu. ![]()
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