The Beast to Die

Oct 4, 1980

1h 58m

★ 5.2

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".

Genres

Action

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

KADOKAWA

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Cast

Kunihiko Date

Yūsaku Matsuda

Reiko Hanada

Asami Kobayashi

Hideyuki Kashiwagi

Hideo Murota

Minehara

Rikiya Yasuoka

Okada

Yoshirō Aoki

Tojo

Kai Ato

Umezu

Eimei Esumi

Tachibana

Hirokazu Inoue

Youki

Koichi Iwaki

Kobayashi

Shigeru Izumiya

Okutsu

Toby Kadoguchi

Haruki Kadokawa

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