神獣の爪
director:
Seijun Suzuki
playwright:
Yasuhiro Sakurai
actor:
Naoko Ohtani
/
Hiroshi Sekiguchi
/
Hiroshi Kondō
/
Yuki Kimura
/
Isamu Nagato
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genre:
Mystery
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TV Movie
language:
Japanese
length: 45m
release date: 1980-06-20
IMDb: tt9770064
神獣の爪
overview
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.