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The Castle of Sand

  • 1974
  • 2h 23m
  • Crime, Mystery, Drama
  • 7.3

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

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Storyline

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Cast

Tetsuro TambaDetective Eitaro Imanishi
Gō KatōEiro Waga
Kensaku MoritaDetective Hiroshi Yoshimura
Yoko ShimadaReiko Takagi
Karin YamaguchiSachiko Tadakoro
Shin SaburiEx-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro
Yoshi KatōChiyokichi Motoura
Kazuhide HarutaHideo Motoura
Ken OgataKenichi Miki
Seiji MatsuyamaShokichi Miki
Taketoshi NaitōSearch Section Chief
Chishū RyūKojuro Kirihara
Masumi HarukawaNaka Sumie
Yoshio InabaSearch Chief Clerk
Tokue HanazawaMiki's Colleague in Flashback
Kinzō ShinLinguistics Professor Kuwabara

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