The Beast to Die
118 mins
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings “walks like a dead man”. Kashiwagi runs into Date, a former correspondent in the Vietnam War. There, Date discovered hell and something snapped in his mind.
Shoichi Maruyama
Screenplay
Mitsuru Kurosawa
Producer
Tatsuro Shigaki
Executive Producer
Seizō Sengen
Director of Photography
Osamu Tanaka
Editor
Tsutomu Imamura
Production Design
Yōnosuke Koike
Assistant Director
Haruhiko Oyabu
Novel