Akame 48 Waterfalls

Akame 48 Waterfalls

2003•2h 39m•5.6/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.6/10(7)

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.

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Production

Eisei Gekijo, Tokyo Media Relations

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Shinobu Terajima

Shinobu Terajima

Aya

Shima Onishi

Shima Onishi

Yoichi Ikushima

Michiyo Yasuda

Michiyo Yasuda

Kishida Seiko

Yuya Uchida

Yuya Uchida

Eyebrows

Hirofumi Arai

Hirofumi Arai

Rhino

Akaji Maro

Akaji Maro

Triangular Eyes

Hideko Okiyama

Hideko Okiyama

Princess Tsuji

Nao Omori

Nao Omori

Work

Kensaku Watanabe

Kensaku Watanabe

Sanpakugan

Michio Akiyama

Michio Akiyama

Hemorrhoids Turtle

Hidekazu Akai

Hidekazu Akai

New World

Ōmiya Ichi

Ōmiya Ichi

Sanada

Shungicu Uchida

Shungicu Uchida

Prostitute

Takato Enokida

Shinpei

Moeko Ezawa

Moeko Ezawa

Prostitute

Motomi Makiguchi

Motomi Makiguchi

Pilgrimage to My Father

Sachiko Uesugi

Mother's Pilgrimage

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Grandpa

Kiyobumi Kaneko

Kiyobumi Kaneko

Yamane

Kohaku Omura

Sleeping Cat

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