Hakuchû no shikaku
ActionCrimeDramaThriller
A crime story about a sociopath businessman and his associates who cheat small businesses out of their money with shady contracts in the early 50s.
Director
Tôru Murakawa
Writers
Fumio Kônami, Akimitsu Takagi
Stars
Isao Natsuyagi, Katsu Ryûzaki, Akira Nakao
Release Date
April 7, 1979
Language
Japanese, English
Country
Japan
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🎭 Top Cast
Isao Natsuyagi
as Shichiro Tsuruoka
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Katsu Ryûzaki
as Ryosuke Kijima
Akira Nakao
as Zenji Kuki
Yôko Shimada
as Ayaka
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Mitsuko Oka
as Takako Fujii
Shin'ichi Chiba
as Yosuke Ota
Shin Kishida
as Koichi Sumita
Shigeru Amachi
as Fukunaga
Kei Satô
as Toshikatsu Uematsu
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Hideo Murota
as Kumagai
🎬 Technical Specs
Sound
4-Track Stereo
Color
Color
Production
Toei Tokyo, Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho
🏷️ Keywords
moneyyakuzabased on novel
🎯 Categories
JapaneseActionCrimeDramaThriller
⭐ Featured Review
Overlong Yakuza expose
"I was more than a little bored by this Japanese yakuza feature which I expected to be far more interesting. It tries to have some European, American acents, but it lacks action and also the gloominess that we had a decade earlier in Rising Sun Country crime flicks. It's a rare movie though but not worth enough for me to keep it. talkative. Kinji Fukasaku would have given us a far better result with such a material...."
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📖 Synopsis
A crime story about a sociopath businessman and his associates who cheat small businesses out of their money with shady contracts in the early 50s.