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A Certain Killer
A Certain Killer

A Certain Killer

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A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

82 mins

Rating

6.7/10

Release Date

29 April 1967

Country

Japan

Cast

Raizō Ichikawa

Raizō Ichikawa

Shiozawa

Yumiko Nogawa

Yumiko Nogawa

Keiko

Mikio Narita

Mikio Narita

Maeda

Mayumi Nagisa

Mayumi Nagisa

Shogo

Jōtarō Senba

Jōtarō Senba

Tatsuo Matsushita

Tatsuo Matsushita

Owada

Sachiko Kobayashi

Sachiko Kobayashi

Asao Koike

Asao Koike

Kimura

Saburo Date

Saburo Date

Yūji Hamada

Yūji Hamada

Chikara Hashimoto

Chikara Hashimoto

Yukio Horikita

Yukio Horikita

Hajime Koshikawa

Hajime Koshikawa

Gen Kuroki

Gen Kuroki

Yutaro Ban

Yutaro Ban

Tsuyako Okajima

Tsuyako Okajima

Yūsaku Terashima

Yūsaku Terashima

Kanji Uehara

Kanji Uehara

Tadashi Iwata

Tadashi Iwata

Kenichi Kagami

Kenichi Kagami

Akira Shiga

Akira Shiga

Kazuo Ōbayashi

Kazuo Ōbayashi

Kazuo Mortuchi

Kazuo Mortuchi

Tsuyotake Matsuda

Tsuyotake Matsuda

Nobuko Hisamoto

Nobuko Hisamoto

Sōji Shibata

Sōji Shibata

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