How popular are the noir tinted Detective Office 5 films in their native Japan? Popular enough that both screenings of the latest entry - The Code - at the just completed Tokyo International Film Festival sold out a reported thirty seconds after the online box office opened for business. And that is rather fast. Once again the iconic Jo Shishido stars in a key support role while the main body of the story revolves around a code breaker trying to unearth the information that will free a night club singer. The noir conventions flow hard and fast, with everything from the stark lighting, femme fatale, hard boiled detective talk and choice of headgear and while this series of films has definitely been turned out fast and cheap they're popular for a very simple reason: they're good.

Check the trailer out in the Twitch Player below the break.