The Stairway to the Distant Past

Mar 18, 1995

1h 41m

★ 7.0

Overview

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Eizo Tanteisha

For Life Records Inc.

The Stairway to the Distant Past Trailers

Cast

Maiku Hama

Masatoshi Nagase

Lily Hama

Haruko Wanibuchi

White Man

Eiji Okada

Akane Hama

Mika Ohmine

Masaru Kanno

Shiro Sano

Hoshino

Kiyotaka Nanbara

Sugimoto

Tetta Sugimoto

Yamaguchi

Shinya Tsukamoto

Jo Shishido

Joe Shishido

Matsuda

Keiji Matsuda

Lt. Nakayama

Akaji Maro

Sachiko Shibata

Kazuko Shirakawa

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