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Castle of Sand (砂の器, Suna no utsuwa) is a 1974 Japanese police procedural film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, based on the novel Suna no Utsuwa by Seicho Matsumoto.
Oct 10, 1975 · The Castle of Sand: Directed by Yoshitarô Nomura. With Tetsurô Tanba, Gô Katô, Kensaku Morita, Yôko Shimada. Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
Oct 19, 1974 · Detectives Eitaro Imanishi ( Tetsuro Tamba) and Hiroshi Yoshimura ( Kensaku Morita) investigate the murder of retired police officer Miki Kenji ( Ken Ogata ). Their only clue is that the suspect is named Kameda and he speaks in a northern dialect.
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Directed by Yoshitaro Nomura • 1974 • Japan. Two detectives investigate the seemingly random murder of an old man found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
The biggest box office hit director Yoshitaro Nomura ever had in his native Japan was Castle of Sand (1974), one of eight films he made based on the work of crime novelist Seicho Matsumoto. It was the most highly-regarded of Nomura's films by Japanese critics, took second place in Kinema Jumpo magazine's 1975's poll of critics, and was ranked ...
For its first hour and a half, Castle Of Sand is a fairly straightforward, albeit unusually languorous, police procedural. Inspector Imanishi (Tetsurô Tanba) investigates the murder of an elderly man who turns out to be a retired rural police officer (Ken Ogata).
