Rififi à Tokyo 1963 - Director: Jacques Deray

Karl-Heinz Böhm, Barbara Lass

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The notorious crook Van Hekkin intends to pull one off one final heist before he retires – the theft of a priceless diamond kept in a bank vault in Tokyo.  He has recruited Carl Mersen, one-time soldier in a self-imposed exile, and Pierre Mérigné, an engineer who has perfected a metal-dissolving machine that will make the bank robbery possible.   Hekkin’s scheme is put in jeopardy by Mérigné’s mental instability, which is exacerbated by his wife’s interest in Mersen, and the constant threat from the local mafia…