Beppin Town

Oct 18, 1989

1h 43m

★ 0.0

A movie adaptation of the novel of the same name by Haku Kenjo .

Overview

An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.

Genres

Action

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

Central Arts

Toei Company

Beppin Town Trailers

Cast

Kyôhei Shibata

Akiko Tamura

Misako Tanaka

Shuji Sayama

Masahiro Motoki

Machiko Nakajima

Emi Wakui

Tetsuo Kurata

Masatoshi Murakami

Toru Minegishi

Ryuji Katagiri

Kanae Hasebe

Seiji Matano

Ito Yozaburo

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