Smuggler

Smuggler

Body bags pay the bills

2011•1h 54m•6.4/10

ActionComedyDrama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.4/10(28)

To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.

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Production

Grasshoppa!, Django Film, Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting, Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Yahoo! Japan, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Sony PCL, Quaras, KDDI, WOWOW, Kodansha, Happinet, TV Asahi

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Satoshi Tsumabuki

Satoshi Tsumabuki

Ryōsuke Kinuta

Masatoshi Nagase

Masatoshi Nagase

Joe

Yasuko Matsuyuki

Yasuko Matsuyuki

Yuki Yamaoka

Hikari Mitsushima

Hikari Mitsushima

Chiharu Tanuma

Masanobu Ando

Masanobu Ando

Spine

Tsuyoshi Abe

Tsuyoshi Abe

Bukutadashi Kabashi

Tatsuya Gashûin

Tatsuya Gashûin

Jijii

Fumiyo Kohinata

Fumiyo Kohinata

Kenji Nishio

Masahiro Takashima

Masahiro Takashima

Kawashima Seiji

Ryushin Tei

Ryushin Tei

Naizô

Hitoshi Kiyokawa

Takahashi Yoshiharu

Yôhachi Shimada

Yôhachi Shimada

Tanuma

Shota Matsuda

Shota Matsuda

Cop #2

Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Cop #1

Susumu Terajima

Susumu Terajima

Joe's friend

Kanji Tsuda

Kanji Tsuda

Aloha man

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Tomoya Maeno

Tomoya Maeno

Donpei Tsuchihira

Donpei Tsuchihira

Ryuji Yamamoto

Ryuji Yamamoto

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