| Stakeout | |
| Native Name: | 張込み |
| Director: | Yoshitarō Nomura |
| Producer: | Takeshi Ogura |
| Music: | Toshirō Mayuzumi |
| Cinematography: | Seiji Inoue |
| Editing: | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
| Studio: | Shochiku |
| Distributor: | Shochiku |
| Runtime: | 116 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 1958 Japanese drama and crime film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, based on a short story by Seicho Matsumoto of the same name.
After the murder of a pawnbroker, Tokyo detectives Shimooka and Yuki are sent to Kyushu, home of murder suspect Ishii's former girlfriend Sadako, as the police expect Ishii to make contact with her. While observing her house, Yuki starts to sympathise with Sadako, who lives in an unhappy marriage with her loveless businessman husband. When Ishii finally meets with Sadako, Yuki's initial presumption, that he might want to kill her and subsequently commit suicide, is proven wrong. Sadako, regretting their once parting, asks Ishii to allow her to go with him, but Ishii, ill with tuberculosis, declines. The police arrest Ishii, leaving behind a grieving Sadako. As Shimooka and Yuki prepare to return to Tokyo with Ishii, Yuki writes a telegram to his girlfriend Yumiko, promising to marry her once he returns.
1958 Kinema Junpo Award,[1] Blue Ribbon Award[2] and Mainichi Film Award[3] for Best Screenplay (Shinobu Hashimoto).
Matsumoto's short story was repeatedly adapted for television in later years.[4] Some of these adaptations stayed closer to the original story, which has only one detective, Yuki, observe Sadako,[5] while others took over Hashimoto's idea to present two detectives.