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A Certain Killer
1967•1h 22m•6.6/10
DramaCrime

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6.6/10(14)

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

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Production

Daiei Film

Language

JA

Status

Released

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Cast

Raizō Ichikawa

Raizō Ichikawa

Shiozawa

Yumiko Nogawa

Yumiko Nogawa

Keiko

Mikio Narita

Mikio Narita

Maeda

Mayumi Nagisa

Mayumi Nagisa

Shogo

Jōtarō Senba

Jōtarō Senba

Tatsuo Matsushita

Owada

Sachiko Kobayashi

Sachiko Kobayashi

Asao Koike

Asao Koike

Kimura

Saburo Date

Saburo Date

Yūji Hamada

Yūji Hamada

Chikara Hashimoto

Yukio Horikita

Yukio Horikita

Hajime Koshikawa

Gen Kuroki

Yutaro Ban

Tsuyako Okajima

Tsuyako Okajima

Yūsaku Terashima

Yūsaku Terashima

Kanji Uehara

Tadashi Iwata

Kenichi Kagami

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