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The Castle of Sand

Original title: 砂の器

7.455 votes19742h 23mReleased

Crime
Mystery
Drama

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Director: Yoshitarō Nomura
Released: 19 October 1974
Studio: Shochiku
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Tetsuro Tamba
Detective Eitaro Imanishi
Gō Katō
Eiro Waga
Kensaku Morita
Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura
Yoko Shimada
Reiko Takagi
Karin Yamaguchi
Sachiko Tadakoro

The Castle of Sand (1974) | 123 Movies

Shin Saburi

Ex-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro

Yoshi Katō

Chiyokichi Motoura

Kazuhide Haruta

Hideo Motoura

Ken Ogata

Kenichi Miki

Seiji Matsuyama

Shokichi Miki

Taketoshi Naitō

Search Section Chief

Chishū Ryū

Kojuro Kirihara

Masumi Harukawa

Naka Sumie

Yoshio Inaba

Search Chief Clerk

Tokue Hanazawa

Miki's Colleague in Flashback

Kinzō Shin

Linguistics Professor Kuwabara

Kappei Matsumoto

Mimori Police Chief

Jun Hamamura

Patrolman

Takanobu Hozumi

Matsuzaki

Hatsuo Yamaya

Iwagi Police Chief

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