THE WARPED ONES
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This month on TCM, Mondays and Thursdays in prime time are devoted to “Jazz in Film.” Tonight’s sub-topic is “International Jazz,” and the entries include this Japanese drama, which is about a young pickpocket with a taste for jazz (heard prominently in the soundtrack, and featured in certain scenes), as well as sex (his girlfriend is a prostitute) and, in time, revenge against those who put him in jail. This 1960 movie, also released subsequently under the alternate and misleadingly teasing title The Weird Love Makers (pictured), was directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara, and helped launch what is now referred to as the Japanese New Wave of cinema.