The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Passport to Darkness
When
Wed 30 Jul 2025
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A jazz trombonist drowns his sorrows after his wife disappears en route to their honeymoon. Returning home to Tokyo he discovers her body in their apartment and sets out to find her killer. Hurtled from bar to bar across the seedy terrain of urban Tokyo, he is opened up to the vices, horrors and attractions of an insidious underworld. Suzuki’s rarely screened, visually stunning and propulsively energetic noir-tinged crime movie – his eleventh feature in three years – provides a fascinatingly kinetic portrayal of guilt, revenge and addiction.
35mm print of courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
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Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.
Melbourne Cinémathèque is self-administered, volunteer-run, not-for-profit and membership-driven.
