Great Jailbreak (1975)
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.
Director:
Teruo Ishii
Writer:
Teruo Ishii
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Ken Takakura as Ichiro Kozue |
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Nana Kinomi as Aki |
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Bunta Sugawara as Kunizo Kuniiwa |
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Eiji Gō as Gota Namikawa |
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Kunie Tanaka as Goda |
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Asao Koike as Sagawa |
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Hideo Murota as Daichi |
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Yoshi Katō as Kazami |
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Tatsuo Ito as Koichi Akada |
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Gōzō Sōma as Detective |
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Rinichi Yamamoto as |
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Noboru Mitani as |
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Hiroshi Tanaka as |
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Keiji Takamiya as |
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Kōji Mitsui as |
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Hirohisa Nakata as |
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Kyōichi Satō as |
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Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama as |
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Tatsuya Kameyama as |
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Masao Imafuku as |
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Tokuko Sugiyama as |
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Sayoko Tanimoto as |
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Genji Kawai as |
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Kiyoshi Yamamoto as |
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Kōji Fujiyama as |
| Camera | Tetsuya Desaki | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Masuhiro Hirokami | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Yasunojo Kawasaki | Lighting Technician |
| Directing | Teruo Ishii | Director |
| Writing | Teruo Ishii | Screenplay |
| Editing | Fumio Soda | Editor |
| Art | Hiroshi Fujita | Art Direction |
| Sound | Hachiro Aoyama | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Shinichi Hashimoto | Assistant Director |