Beast Alley (1965)
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
Director:
Eizō Sugawa
Writers:
Yoshio Shirasaka, Eizō Sugawa.
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Junko Ikeuchi as Tamiko Narisawa |
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Keiju Kobayashi as Detective Hisatsune |
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Yūnosuke Itō as |
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Eitarō Ozawa as Kôta Kitô |
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Ryō Ikebe as Shôjirô Kotaki |
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Susumu Kurobe as |
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Tadao Nakamaru as Detective Sawa |
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Yoshio Tsuchiya as Katsuragi |
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Bin Moritsuka as |
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Yoshio Inaba as |
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Michiko Otsuka as |
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Takamaru Sasaki as Dietman Okamura |
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Koreya Senda as |
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Noriko Sengoku as |
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Kiyoko Hirai as |
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Kin Sugai as Oseki |
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Shin Tatsuoka as |
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Kenzō Tabu as |
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Gen Shimizu as |
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Hirayoshi Aono as |
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Akira Tani as |
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Tōru Ibuki as Young man 1 |
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Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as |
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Shigeki Ishida as Sakai |
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Hōsei Komatsu as |
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Sen Yano as Koizumi |
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Someshō Matsumoto as |
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Masahiko Arima as Takamori |
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Katsumi Tezuka as Fukami |
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Hideo Shibuya as |
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Kenzo Echigo as |
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Akio Kusama as |
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Seiji Ikeda as Asanuma |
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Hiroaki Kurahashi as |
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Kyoko Mori as |
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Midori Chigusa as |
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Yoshiko Miyata as Katsuyo Hisatsune |
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Toriko Takahara as (uncredited) |
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Keiichirō Katsumoto as (uncredited) |
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Yukihiko Gondō as Young man 2 (uncredited) |
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Shin Ibuki as Worker A (uncredited) |
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Ichirō Shōji as Worker B (uncredited) |
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Wataru Ōmae as Hotel bartender (uncredited) |
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Minoru Itō as Detective A (uncredited) |
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Haruo Suzuki as Detective B (uncredited) |
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Kamayuki Tsubono as Plainclothes policeman (uncredited) |
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Yōko Yano as Kito's maid A (uncredited) |
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Wakako Tanabe as Kito's maid B (uncredited) |
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Chie Sugiura as (uncredited) |
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Sadako Amemiya as (uncredited) |
| Directing | Kiyoshi Nishimura | Assistant Director |
| Production | Masakatsu Kaneko | Producer |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Editing | Yoshitami Kuroiwa | Editor |
| Sound | Toshiya Ban | Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Eizō Sugawa | Director |
| Writing | Seicho Matsumoto | Novel |
| Writing | Yoshio Shirasaka | Screenplay |
| Writing | Eizō Sugawa | Screenplay |
| Camera | Yasumichi Fukuzawa | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yoshirō Muraki | Art Direction |
| Lighting | Chōshirō Ishii | Gaffer |
| Sound | Toru Takemitsu | Original Music Composer |