Assassination

Masahiro Shinoda - 1964
Similar, stylistically, in many ways, to 'Silence', this film uses long takes with a still camera quite a bit. This is except on a few occassions when we have some very fast scanning, quite a difference. Again we have quite an agressive SRS, usually on quite ahrd, perhaps 150' line or so, a 'thin' SRS, let us say. This seperation of characters is used when the dialogue is agressive, in clamer or more informational scenes we have more of the still long shots. Also note the staging in depth, though the long lens (for zooms) means the other is often out of focus. This lens is clear in scenes of running towards us, as though on the spot.
We have a few nice overheads here, especially above the big hats, which obscure identity and help in the overall noirish tone. Their is the construction of identity through flashback (hints of 'Kane' style), building up tension. There is obsession, indicated by the P.O.V. joggly camera we get near the end. It is also in the two seperate main characters.
Ultimately a hardboiled film, where the mass are shown to change sides quickly, with outbreaks of violence coming, along with some of the mentioned agressive camera work, to jolt us.