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WIND VELOCITY 75 METERS—Widescreen Edition (1963) Ken Utsui, Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Hideo Takamatsu. Set around the Japanese city of Ginza, this film is a classic disaster movie with a mixture of drama, corporate intrigue, and crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific and Ginza is square in its sights! It sweeps down on the city in a manner probably a bit beyond the limits of science for even the most powerful of typhoons. The special effects of devastation and deluge are pretty amazing stuff, visually. A real treasure of Japanese cinema. In Japanese with no subtitles, but we have added an English-language synopsis at the beginning of the film to help you understand what’s going on, though certainly the climactic storm scenes need little explanation. Widescreen, from 35mm.
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