Noh Mask Murders

Mar 15, 1991

1h 49m

★ 5.6

Overview

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

Genres

Mystery

Drama

Production Companies

KADOKAWA Shoten

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Kintetsu Railway

dentsu

Kintetsu Department Store

Bandai

Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company

Miyagi Television Broadcasting

Kumamoto Kenmin Televisions

IMAGICA

Pioneer LDC

TOHO Studios

Noh Mask Murders Trailers

Cast

Mitsuhiko Asami

Takaaki Enoki

Kazunori Mizukami

Takeshi Kusaka

Hidemi Mizukami

Naomi Zaizen

Ittoku Kishibe

Yoshinori Takasaki

Shigeru Kōyama

Rei Okamoto

Kazutaka Mizukami

Shota Yamaguchi

Detective Kurata

Yousuke Saito

Akiji Kobayashi

Patrolman Nakamura

Fujio Tokita

Kume Fukumoto

Michino Yokoyama

Chiyoe Fukumoto

Miki Kihara

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