The Beast Shall Die (1959)
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
Director:
Eizō Sugawa
Writer:
Yoshio Shirasaka
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Tatsuya Nakadai as Kunihiko Date |
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Hiroshi Koizumi as Detective Masugi |
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Reiko Dan as Taeko Kusumi |
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Yumi Shirakawa as |
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Makoto Satō as |
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Eiko Miyoshi as |
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Michino Yokoyama as Waitress |
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Ichirō Shimizu as |
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Yoshio Shirasaka as Tsuji |
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Nobuo Nakamura as Professor Sugimura |
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Eijirō Tōno as Detective Kuwashima |
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Yūsuke Takita as |
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Toru Takeuchi as Tezuka |
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Haruya Katō as |
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Nadao Kirino as |
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Yutaka Sada as Driver |
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Akira Sera as Detective Okada |
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Tetsu Nakamura as |
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Kenzō Tabu as |
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Akira Tani as Apartment superintendent |
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Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as |
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Shirō Tsuchiya as |
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Shōichi Hirose as |
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Kyoko Mori as Hostess at the Rollita A |
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Kôji Uno as |
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Gorô Sakurai as |
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Fumindo Matsuo as |
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Etsuo Saijo as |
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Mitsuo Tsuda as |
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Kenji Kasahara as |
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Tadashi Okabe as |
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Yoshikazu Kawamata as |
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Akiko Wakabayashi as Hostess at the Rollita B |
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Ichirō Chiba as |
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Kisao Hatamochi as |
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Yutaka Nakayama as |
| Directing | Takashi Nagano | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Eizō Sugawa | Director |
| Writing | Yoshio Shirasaka | Screenplay |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Production | Masakatsu Kaneko | Producer |
| Editing | Reiko Kaneko | Editor |
| Art | Kyoe Hamagami | Production Design |
| Sound | Toshiya Ban | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Hisashi Shimonaga | Sound Effects Editor |
| Camera | Fukuzo Koizumi | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Haruhiko Oyabu | Novel |
| Sound | Toshirō Mayuzumi | Original Music Composer |