Kiss of Death (1947)
Directed by Henry Hathaway
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
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One scene sums up its violent grandiloquence nicely: a shootout in a fireworks factory between the world's number-one hit man, O, a young slicked-back, cooler-than-a-Popsicle Japanese hipster played by model-singer-actor Takashi Sorimachi, and its number-two killer, Tok, a Chinese assassin played â with nervous giggles that echo back to Richard Widmark's old-lady killer in Kiss of Death â by Hong Kong icon Andy Lau.
Leto seems to be channeling, consciously or otherwise, Richard Widmark in the 1947 noir Kiss of Death—that’s the one where Widmark’s truly creepy-evil character pushes an old lady in a wheelchair down the stairs.