Beppin Town (1989)
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.
Director: Takahito Hara
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Kyôhei Shibata as Me |
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Misako Tanaka as Akiko Tamura |
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Masahiro Motoki as Shuji Sayama |
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Emi Wakui as Machiko Nakajima |
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Tetsuo Kurata as |
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Masatoshi Murakami as |
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Toru Minegishi as |
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Ryuji Katagiri as |
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Kanae Hasebe as |
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Seiji Matano as |
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Ito Yozaburo as |
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Jun Yoshida as |
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Kaori Moritani as |
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Keishi Hunt as |
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Miho Tsumiki as |
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Tamio Kawachi as |
| Directing | Takahito Hara | Director |
| Editing | Isao Tomita | Editor |
| Crew | Kikumatsu Soda | Cinematography |
| Production | Tatsuo Hattori | Producer |
| Lighting | Tatsuya Osada | Lighting Director |
| Camera | Masatsugu Hosoi | Grip |
| Production | Shigeru Iizuka | Casting |
| Writing | Hiroshi Kashiwabara | Writer |
| Art | Shuichiro Nakamura | Art Direction |
| Production | Kazuo Kishimoto | Producer |
| Production | Masao Mochizuki | Producer |
| Sound | Kenichi Watanabe | Sound Effects |
| Sound | Kimio Nomura | Music |
| Sound | Seiji Suzuki | Sound Director |