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Kill the Killer!

19611h 25mMovie

JA woman is witness to a murder but flees the scene, leaving behind only a handkerchief with her name, Rie, embroidered upon it. Police race to find her before the yakuza can track her down.

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Cast

Yōsuke NatsukiBen
Kumi MizunoRie (owner of “Seine” dress shop)
Tatsuya MihashiFujimura
Michiyo TamakiSanae (waitress at “Fancy”)
Keiko AwajiToshiko (madam at bar “Fancy”)
Akihiko HirataOtaki (President of Otaki Construction)
Tetsuro TambaNarumi
Tadao NakamaruAsakura (representative of Tachibana group)
Haruya KatōSub (Tachibana group thug)
Tatsuo EndōTezuka
Kensuke YairoTakeshi (Asakura’s right-hand man)
Jun FuwaOsato (Asakura’s right-hand man)
Yoshitaka KusunokiKatsumi (Tezuka’s right-hand man)
Hiroshi TachiharaMatsuda (Tezuka’s right-hand man)

Details

Director: Kōzō Saeki
Writers: Fumio Shibano
Release date: June 27, 1961
Runtime: 1h 25m
Original language: Japanese
Studios: TOHO

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Movies like Kill the Killer!

The Killer20246.7
Until Death20075.7
The Virtuoso20213.3
Indemnity20226.7
Killers20146.2
The International20096.0
The System20224.2
Night Train20233.8
Shade20035.7
Best of the Best 219933.5
Red Right Hand20245.3
One Night in Bangkok20204.3

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