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The Castle of Sand
Crime
Mystery
Drama
⭐ 7.3
JA
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Released October 19, 1974
Release
October 19, 1974
Runtime
2h 23m
Rating
⭐ 7.3 / 10
Director
Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres
Crime · Mystery · Drama
Status
Released
Starring
Tetsuro Tamba, Gō Katō, Kensaku Morita, Yoko Shimada, Karin Yamaguchi
About The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Movie Details
| Director | Yoshitarō Nomura |
| Cast | Tetsuro Tamba as Detective Eitaro Imanishi, Gō Katō as Eiro Waga, Kensaku Morita as Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yoko Shimada as Reiko Takagi, Karin Yamaguchi as Sachiko Tadakoro, Shin Saburi as Ex-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro, Yoshi Katō as Chiyokichi Motoura, Kazuhide Haruta as Hideo Motoura, Ken Ogata as Kenichi Miki, Seiji Matsuyama as Shokichi Miki, Taketoshi Naitō as Search Section Chief, Chishū Ryū as Kojuro Kirihara, Masumi Harukawa as Naka Sumie, Yoshio Inaba as Search Chief Clerk, Tokue Hanazawa as Miki's Colleague in Flashback, Kinzō Shin as Linguistics Professor Kuwabara, Kappei Matsumoto as Mimori Police Chief, Jun Hamamura as Patrolman, Takanobu Hozumi as Matsuzaki, Hatsuo Yamaya as Iwagi Police Chief |
| Genre | Crime, Mystery, Drama |
| Runtime | 143 min |
| Studio | Shochiku |
| Country | Japan |
| Languages | Japanese |
| IMDb | View on IMDb |
Where to Watch
Criterion Channel
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