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The Beast to Die

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Jake Cole Slant Magazine The Beast to Die suggests that Date’s brutality might reach a point to shock him back to empathy, a note of bleak hope befitting one of the darkest neo-noirs from any nation. Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Douglas Davidson Elements of Madness ... should be talked about in the same breath as other, well-known war pictures, not just for its content but for the performance by Matsuda which grabs you like razor wire and won’t let go. Jul 21, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews
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Tôru Murakawa

Director

Yusaku Matsuda

Kunihiko Date

Asami Kobayashi

Reiko Hanada

Hideo Murota

Hideyuki Kashiwagi

Toshie Negishi

Yukie Hara

Morio Kazama

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The Beast to Die

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Movie Info

Director
Tôru Murakawa
Producer
Haruki Kadokawa, Mitsuru Kurosawa, Tatsuro Shigaki
Screenwriter
Shoichi Maruyama
Production Co
Toei Co. Ltd., Kadokawa Haruki Jimusho
Genre
Action, Drama, Crime
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
1h 58m