Jun 09, 1959
96 min
Full-HD

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.

Category

Crime Drama Thriller

Country

Japan

Companies

TOHO

Tatsuya Nakadai

Kunihiko Date

Hiroshi Koizumi

Detective Masugi

Reiko Dan

Taeko Kusumi

Yumi Shirakawa

Makoto Satō

Eiko Miyoshi

Michino Yokoyama

Waitress

Ichirō Shimizu

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