Zero Focus - 1961 - 6/10
AKA - Zero no Shôten //ゼロの焦点
After their honeymoon, Kenichi heads off on a business trip and tells his wife he will soon return.
Only he disappears.
After failed investigations, she boards a northbound train northwards, in search of her missing husband.
A cracking pace propels the first half of this film. A pile of jump cuts, hold on!
The pace noticeably slows, however, before long exposition sections snuff the energy.
Other have likened this to Hitchcock, but it lacks the tension.
Seen with the 2009 remake, a couple of plot puzzles are clarified.