The Castle of Sand (1974)
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Top billed cast
Tetsuro TambaDetective Eitaro Imanishi
Gō KatōEiro Waga
Kensaku MoritaDetective Hiroshi Yoshimura
Yoko ShimadaReiko Takagi
Karin YamaguchiSachiko Tadakoro
Shin SaburiEx-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro
Yoshi KatōChiyokichi Motoura
Kazuhide HarutaHideo Motoura
Ken OgataKenichi Miki
Seiji MatsuyamaShokichi Miki
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