

Top Cast

Kiyotaka Nanbara
Ryō Hoshi

Teruyoshi Uchimura
Minoru Kondō

Yosuke Eguchi
Takashi Tagawa

Shinji Takeda
Haruo Kunishiro
Maiko Asano
Reiko Minakami

Tomoko Yamaguchi

Toru Masuoka
Tatsuo Tanba
Key Film Crew
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