Crime ·Drama ·Thriller · Japan · 1959 · 1h 36m

The Beast Shall Die

野獣死すべし

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Director
Eizō Sugawa
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai as Kunihiko Date Hiroshi Koizumi as Detective Masugi Reiko Dan as Taeko Kusumi Yumi Shirakawa as Makoto Satō as Eiko Miyoshi as
Crew
Fukuzo Koizumi — Director of Photography Reiko Kaneko — Editor Toshirō Mayuzumi — Original Music Composer Yoshio Shirasaka — Screenplay Haruhiko Oyabu — Novel Masakatsu Kaneko — Producer
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
based on novel or bookpsychopathserial killerpolice investigationjapanese noir
Key Collaborators
Eizō Sugawa Director Fukuzo Koizumi Director of Photography Reiko Kaneko Editor Toshirō Mayuzumi Original Music Composer Yoshio Shirasaka Screenplay Haruhiko Oyabu Novel Masakatsu Kaneko Producer Sanezumi Fujimoto Producer Kyoe Hamagami Production Design
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