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Rating: 8 stars

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radiance films 1980 Japan post-traumatic stress disorder trauma murder classical music bank robbery rape nihilism

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The Beast to Die (1980)

Directed by Tōru Murakawa

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Overview

A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings “walks like a dead man”.

Length 118 minutes

Actors

Yûsaku Matsuda | Asami Kobayashi | Hideo Murota | Rikiya Yasuoka | Yoshirô Aoki | Kai Atô | Eimei Esumi | Hirokazu Inoue | Koichi Iwaki | Shigeru Izumiya | Toby Kadoguchi | Haruki Kadokawa | Takeshi Kaga | Daiki Katô | Morio Kazama | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Yôko Maeno | Toshie Negishi | Rei Okamoto | Kei Satō | Shinji Sekikawa | Hiroshi Shimizu | Michihiro Yamanishi | Hitomi Yoshioka

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

A nihilistic, traumatizing Japanese crime thriller like none I’ve seen before, and I’ve seen plenty. So basically, my kind of movie.

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