The Beast to Die

The Beast to Die

118 mins | Drama, Crime, Action | Oct. 4, 1980

A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings “walks like a dead man”. Kashiwagi runs into Date, a former correspondent in the Vietnam War. There, Date discovered hell and something snapped in his mind.

The Beast to Die

118 mins | Drama, Crime, Action | Oct. 4, 1980

The Beast to Die
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings “walks like a dead man”. Kashiwagi runs into Date, a former correspondent in the Vietnam War. There, Date discovered hell and something snapped in his mind.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Kadokawa Pictures
Original title 野獣死すべし
Directors Yônosuke Koike, Tōru Murakawa
Writers Haruhiko Oyabu, Shoichi Maruyama

Cast

Yūsaku Matsuda

as Kunihiko Date

Asami Kobayashi

as Reiko Hanada

Hideo Murota

as Hideyuki Kashiwagi

Rikiya Yasuoka

as Minehara

Yoshirô Aoki

as Okada

Kai Atō

as Tojo

Eimei Esumi

as Umezu

Hirokazu Inoue

as Tachibana

Koichi Iwaki

as Youki

Shigeru Izumiya

as Kobayashi

Toby Kadoguchi

as Okutsu

Takeshi Kaga

as Sanada

Daiki Katô

as Hirai

Morio Kazama

as Nogi

Kōjirō Kusanagi

as Nagatomo

Yôko Maeno

as Sara

Toshie Negishi

as Yukie Hara

Rei Okamoto

as Erika

Kei Satō

as Endo

Shinji Sekikawa

as Shirai

Michihiro Yamanishi

as Kuroiwa

Hitomi Yoshioka

as Ishitori