

Jubaku: Spellbound
1999-09-18 · 114 min · ★ 6.2
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.
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- Directors
- Masato Harada
- Production companies
- KADOKAWA
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Koji YakushoHiroshi Kitano
Tatsuya NakadaiHideaki Sasaki
Kippei ShiinaAkio Katayama
Tetsuro TambaTajiro Kawakami
Jinpachi NezuKohei Nakayama
Jun FubukiKyoko Kitano
Renji IshibashiMasao Nakazawa
Mayumi WakamuraMiho Wada
Hitomi KurokiHiroko Sato
Kenichi EndoOnoki
Yuko NakamuraReceptionist
Yasukaze MotomiyaYoung Man
Yumi TakigawaNobue Aoki
Kenichi YajimaTakuya Ishii
Ikuji NakamuraHideki Matsubara
Masako MotaiIchijo
Hirotaro HondaJinnai
Yasukiyo UmenoNoboru Sakamoto
Katsuhiko KobayashiShuzo Yoshino
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