The Beast Shall Die
1959•1h 36m•6.2•Released
CrimeDramaThriller
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
Director
Eizō Sugawa
Writer
Yoshio Shirasaka
Languages
Japanese, Mandarin, English
Studio
TOHO
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai
Kunihiko Date
Hiroshi Koizumi
Detective Masugi
Reiko Dan
Taeko Kusumi
Yumi Shirakawa
Makoto Satō
Eiko Miyoshi
Michino Yokoyama
Waitress
Ichirō Shimizu
Yoshio Shirasaka
Tsuji
Nobuo Nakamura
Professor Sugimura
Eijirō Tōno
Detective Kuwashima
Yūsuke Takita
Toru Takeuchi
Tezuka
Haruya Katō
Nadao Kirino
Production
Company
TOHO
Producer
Masakatsu Kaneko
Producer
Sanezumi Fujimoto
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