The Castle of Sand
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| The Castle of Sand | |
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| Directed by | Yoshitaro Nomura |
| Produced by | Shinobu Hashimoto Yoshihara Mishima Masayuki Sato |
| Written by | Novel: Seicho Matsumoto Screenplay: Shinobu Hashimoto Yoshitaro Nomura Yoji Yamada |
| Music by | Mitsuaki Kanno Kosuke Sugano |
| Cinematography | Takashi Kawamata |
| Released | October 19, 1974 |
| Running time | 143 min. |
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The Castle of Sand (砂の器 Suna no utsuwa) is a 1974 Japanese film based on a Seicho Matsumoto novel and directed by Yoshitaro Nomura.
[edit] Cast
- Tetsuro Tamba ... Detective Imanishi
- Go Kato ... Eiryo Waga
- Kensaku Morita ... Detective Yoshimura
- Yoko Shimada ... Reiko
- Karin Yamaguchi ... Sachiko
- Ken Ogata ... Miki
- Seiji Matsuyama ... Miki's Son
- Yoshi Kato ... Waga's Father
- Chishu Ryu ... Kirihara
- Shin Saburi ... Ex-Finance Minister Tadokoro
- Kiyoshi Atsumi ... Movie Theater Manager
- Kazuhide Kasuga ... Motoura Hideo
- Junko Natsu ... Akiko, hostess at Cabaret Bonuru
- Taketoshi Naito ... Search section chief
- Masumi Harukawa ... Naka Sumie, woman at fan shop
- Yoshio Inaba ... Search chief clerk
- Tokue Hanazawa ... Miki's colleague in flashback
- Taiji Tonoyama ... Publican at Ebisu
- Kinzo Shin ... Linguistics Professor Kuwabara
- Katsuhei Matsumoto ... Mimori police chief
- Jun Hamamura ... Patrolman
- Takanobu Hozumi ... Matsuzaki, journalist
- Hatsuo Yamatani ... Iwagi police chief
- Asaya Fujita ... Forensic technician
- Kin Sugai ... Yamashita
- Akiko Nomura ... Old woman at Wakaba apartment
- Kazuko Imai ... Miki's wife, in Kamedake flashback
- Mitsuyo Inomata ... Waitress at Bar Ron
- Yuri Takase ... Waitress at Bar Ron
- Tatsuki Bessho ... Bartender at Bar Ron
- Yokichi Goto ... Tsutsui, detective at West Kamata station
- Sanpeita Mori ... Detective at Iwagi station
- Go Imabashi ... Asahi shop owner
- Kenichi Kato ... Policeman driving jeep at Mimori station
- Tatsuo Sakurabe ... Surgeon at Setagaya
- Akira Sera ... Fan shop owner
- Akira Kubo ... Patrolman at Setagaya
- Junko Yoshida ... Clerk at naniwa yakusho
- Tsunatoshi Nakamoto ... Policeman at Ebisu
- Akira Matsuda ... Clerk in charge at naniwa yakusho
- Teishiro Nishijima ... West Kamata police chief
- Keiji Tsuchida ... West Kamata chief detective
- Kibaji Tankobo ... West Kamata detective
- Hiroshi Takahashi ... West Kamata detective
- Noriyuki Watanabe ... West Kamata detective
- Mitsuru Yamazaki ... West Kamata detective
- Nobu Kitayama ... West Kamata detective
- Takuo Senga ... West Kamata detective
- Taro Uranobu ... West Kamata detective
- Yuichi Kikuchi ... Waga's friend
- Kentaro Imai ... Metropolitan Police HQ detective
- Yukihide Yamamoto ... Metropolitan Police HQ detective
- Hideaki Komori ... Metropolitan Police HQ detective
- Fumiyo Murayama ... Oku, surgeon at Setagaya
- Ryoko Mizuki ... Farmer at Kamedake
- Yoshiko Togawa ... Staff in charge at Jikoen nursing home
- Eiko Muramatsu ... Mama at Ginza Club
- Takasuke Matsunami
- Kunji Harada
- Yuji Osugi
- Shintaro Mishima
- Tatsuo Ito
- Hideto Nakagawa
- Shuichi Oki
- Nobuo Takagi
- Jun Kajima
- Taeko Sakata
- Yumiko Higashitani
- Takashi Tabata
[edit] External links
- The Castle of Sand review at DVD Beaver
