Lady Joker

Dec 11, 2004

2h 1m

★ 7.5

Overview

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

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Cast

Yuichiro Goda

Satoshi Tokushige

Seizo Monoi

Tetsuya Watari

Katsumi Ko

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Junichi Nunokawa

Ren Osugi

Shuhei Handa

Koji Kikkawa

Yokichi Matsudo

Haruhiko Kato

Keiko Shiroyama

Miho Kanno

Satoru Hirase

Jun Kunimura

Seiichi Shirai

Ittoku Kishibe

Nishimura

Yutaka Matsushige

Kyosuke Shiroyama

Kyōzō Nagatsuka

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