I spent the majority of the afternoon, however, watching the 1979 Japanese film VENGEANCE IS MINE. I had never seen it before, and yet its storyline could have been an American one: a charming ne'er-do-well lies, cheats, swindles, and finally commits murder for no good reason except he's angry with the world and does things his way. There are five people killed during the film, three on camera in very brutal fashion (think the necktie strangling in FRENZY or the brutal killing of the man in TORN CURTAIN - all in-your-face murders) and the two others are revealed in cold blooded fashion that were just as disturbing. At over two hours, it's a long road to not much revelation about the killer's psyche, but that didn't make it any less absorbing.