0 a style of film, usually about crime, that presents the world as being unpleasant, strange, or cruel
1 noir
The trilogy also experiments with film noir conventions, and explores hypnosis and the relationship between reality and unreality.
The film has been highly praised by modern critics, and is viewed as an important example of the film noir genre.
The series' titular character is a detective who has humorous adventures inspired by "film noir" and stereotypical 1950s lounge culture.
His use of light and shadow effects have been compared to the cinematography of "film noir".
He went on to praise the show for its sleek, elegant story and called it anime's most pronounced homage to classic film noir.
But soap and film noir have a lot in common the bad girls have to be punished.
His work in this area helped to establish the material for many film noir projects in the thirties and forties.
We intend it to be as fast-moving and hard-hitting as a "film noir" from the 40s.
