PickFlick
The Castle of Sand

The Castle of Sand

1974•2h 23m•7.4/10
CrimeMysteryDrama

Ratings

🎬TMDb
7.4/10(54)

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Shochiku

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuro Tamba

Detective Eitaro Imanishi

Gō Katō

Gō Katō

Eiro Waga

Kensaku Morita

Kensaku Morita

Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura

Yoko Shimada

Yoko Shimada

Reiko Takagi

Karin Yamaguchi

Karin Yamaguchi

Sachiko Tadakoro

Shin Saburi

Shin Saburi

Ex-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro

Yoshi Katō

Yoshi Katō

Chiyokichi Motoura

Kazuhide Haruta

Kazuhide Haruta

Hideo Motoura

Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata

Kenichi Miki

Seiji Matsuyama

Seiji Matsuyama

Shokichi Miki

Taketoshi Naitō

Taketoshi Naitō

Search Section Chief

Chishū Ryū

Chishū Ryū

Kojuro Kirihara

Masumi Harukawa

Masumi Harukawa

Naka Sumie

Yoshio Inaba

Yoshio Inaba

Search Chief Clerk

Tokue Hanazawa

Tokue Hanazawa

Miki's Colleague in Flashback

Kinzō Shin

Kinzō Shin

Linguistics Professor Kuwabara

Kappei Matsumoto

Mimori Police Chief

Jun Hamamura

Jun Hamamura

Patrolman

Takanobu Hozumi

Takanobu Hozumi

Matsuzaki

Hatsuo Yamaya

Hatsuo Yamaya

Iwagi Police Chief

Recommended

Detective Conan: Captured in Her Eyes

Detective Conan: Captured in Her Eyes

7.4
2000
Movie

Police officers around Tokyo are being murdered by an unknown assailant. When Ran witnesses an attempt on the life of one of her friends in the police, she loses her memory. Now, Conan and Inspector Megure must find the murderer while Ran attempts to regain her lost memories.

Detective Conan: Captured in Her Eyes

2000
7.4
The Crimes That Bind

The Crimes That Bind

7.3
2018
Movie

Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei Matsumiya who is a cousin of Detective Kyoichiro Kaga , have difficulties in solving the case. They can't find a connection between Michiko Oshitani and Mutsuo Koshikawa. They soon learn that Michiko Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit Hiromi Asai . They graduated from the same school, but there isn't a connection between Hiromi Asai and Mutsuo Koshikawa. Detective Yuhei Matsumiya finds something near Michiko Oshitani's body. That something has the names of 12 bridges surrounding the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga learns of the clue and becomes agitated. There's a connection with his late mother

The Crimes That Bind

2018
7.3
Marlowe

Marlowe

6.1
1969
Movie

Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars, and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.

Marlowe

1969
6.1
Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

6.7
2017
Movie

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Murder on the Orient Express

2017
6.7
Murder in Three Acts

Murder in Three Acts

5.8
1986
Movie

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Murder in Three Acts

1986
5.8
Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

7.1
1974
Movie

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Murder on the Orient Express

1974
7.1
Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper

Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper

6.8
2014
Movie

A rash of sniper attacks leaves the streets of Tokyo empty and the public terrified to go outside. It’s up to Conan and his friends to find the culprit, but the case goes deeper than it seems. Military cover-ups, conspiracies and murder abound in this fast-paced, thrilling mystery!

Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper

2014
6.8
The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

7.4
1944
Movie

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

The Woman in the Window

1944
7.4
Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven

Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven

7.3
2001
Movie

As a pair of towers in Tokyo are being prepared for their grand opening, there is a series of murders of people connected to the towers. Conan suspects that the mysterious Syndicate may also be involved.

Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven

2001
7.3
High and Low

High and Low

8.4
1963
Movie

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

High and Low

1963
8.4
Bullet Train Explosion

Bullet Train Explosion

6.8
2025
Movie

When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board.

Bullet Train Explosion

2025
6.8
Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

7.1
2003
Movie

Mouri Kogoro is called to a special case in the ancient capital of Kyoto. There, Conan meets Heiji and they team up once again to solve the case, recover the stolen Healing Buddha statue, and even discover the identity of Heiji's first love.

Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

2003
7.1

Similar Movies

The Yearling

The Yearling

6.7
1946
Movie

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

The Yearling

1946
6.7
The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

4.0
2025
Movie

A 40-something disillusioned novelist, Yazoe, haunted by a failed marriage and a crippling personal secret, navigates hollow affairs with a courtesan named Chieko while projecting his emotional void onto the protagonists of his love novels—until an accidental encounter with a naive college student, Noriko Seyawa, unravels his guarded solitude, forcing him to confront his fear of intimacy and the buried trauma shaping his twisted philosophy on love.

The Stars and the Moon are Holes in the Sky

2025
4.0
Lady Against the Odds

Lady Against the Odds

9.0
1992
Movie

A private detective becomes involved in a new cast when her partner's guardian is murdered.

Lady Against the Odds

1992
9.0
The Postcard Killings

The Postcard Killings

6.3
2020
Movie

After suffering a personal tragedy, and desperate for justice, Jacob Kanon, a veteran New York City police detective, embarks on the search for a twisted killer who is leaving a bloody trail of elaborate murders across Europe.

The Postcard Killings

2020
6.3
The Choice of Our Nation

The Choice of Our Nation

2021
Movie

The referendum whether nuclear power plants should be banned has been held in Japan. People must decide their future.

The Choice of Our Nation

2021
Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley

7.2
1947
Movie

A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

Nightmare Alley

1947
7.2
Mystery Street

Mystery Street

6.8
1950
Movie

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.

Mystery Street

1950
6.8
Excellent Cadavers

Excellent Cadavers

6.3
1999
Movie

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

Excellent Cadavers

1999
6.3
An Autumn Romance

An Autumn Romance

7.1
2021
Movie

When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who wants to renovate it.

An Autumn Romance

2021
7.1
Zatoichi on the Road

Zatoichi on the Road

6.9
1963
Movie

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

Zatoichi on the Road

1963
6.9
Miss Julie

Miss Julie

6.6
1951
Movie

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

Miss Julie

1951
6.6
Twin Dragons

Twin Dragons

6.7
1992
Movie

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

Twin Dragons

1992
6.7
PickFlick Assistant
Hi! I'm your PickFlick Assistant. Ask me about movies, TV shows, OTT sources, or anything about PickFlick.

Powered by CopilotKit