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Rating: 6.5 stars

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Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)

Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto

Crime | Drama

Overview

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn’t them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

Length 117 minutes

Actors

Rentarô Mikuni | Yūnosuke Itō | Yoshiko Sakuma | Shinjirô Ehara | Mako Midori | Tanie Kitabayashi | Sonny Chiba | Hideo Murota | Kô Nishimura | Yoshi Katô | Takeshi Katô | Etsuko Ichihara | Tomo'o Nagai | Yoshio Yoshida | Kenji Imai | Rinichi Yamamoto | Fujie Satsuki | Tokue Hanazawa | Katsu Yamamoto | Mizuho Suzuki | Genji Kawai | Kenji Ushio | Akikane Sawa | Kosaku Okano | Keiichi Kitagawa | Yoshikazu Sugi | Akira Kuji | Haruko Toda | Kyoji Sugi | Tsuneo Tagawa | Shirô Ôki | Fumitake Ômura

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Solid drama about an ex criminal having regrets about knowing some locked dudes didn’t commit the crime he was a witness to. Sonny Chiba shows up in the third act as a lawyer. A very fine movie I wouldn’t have been able to see otherwise thx to DKUTV.

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