The Castle of Sand
51 reviews
Crime/Mystery
2h 23m
1974
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
- DirectorYoshitarō Nomura
- Release19 October 1974
- Genre
- Duration2h 23m
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- Revenue?
- Rate51 reviews
- Productions
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Cast

Tetsuro Tamba
Detective Eitaro Imanishi

Gō Katō
Eiro Waga

Kensaku Morita
Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura

Yoko Shimada
Reiko Takagi

Karin Yamaguchi
Sachiko Tadakoro

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

Jun Hamamura
Patrolman

Takanobu Hozumi
Matsuzaki

Hatsuo Yamaya
Iwagi Police Chief

Kin Sugai
Yamashita

Akiko Nomura
Old Woman at Wakaba Apartment

Yokichi Gotou
Tsutsui

Akira Kubo
Patrolman at Setagaya

Kibaji Tankobo
West Kamata Detective

Ryōko Mizuki

Kiyoshi Atsumi
Movie Theater Manager

Taiji Tonoyama
Publican at Ebisu

Nobuo Takagi

Ryōko Mizuki
Farmer at Kamedake

Eiko Muramatsu
Mama at Ginza Club (uncredited)
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