

The Beast to Die
1980-10-04 · 118 min · ★ 5.8
A Nietzschean journalist who covered the Vietnam War, Lebanese Civil War and other conflicts becomes mentally unstable and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
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- Directors
- Tōru Murakawa
- Production companies
- KADOKAWA
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Yūsaku MatsudaKunihiko Date
Asami KobayashiReiko Hanada
Hideo MurotaHideyuki Kashiwagi
Rikiya YasuokaMinehara
Yoshirō AokiOkada
Kai AtoTojo
Eimei EsumiUmezu
Hirokazu InoueTachibana
Koichi IwakiYouki
Shigeru IzumiyaKobayashi
Haruki Kadokawa
Takeshi KagaSanada
Morio KazamaNogi
Kōjirō KusanagiNagatomo
Toshie NegishiYukie Hara
Rei OkamotoErika
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