The Castle of Sand (1974)

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Cast (70)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Tetsuro Tamba

Detective Eitaro Imanishi

Gō Katō

Eiro Waga

Kensaku Morita

Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura

Yoko Shimada

Reiko Takagi

Karin Yamaguchi

Sachiko Tadakoro

Shin Saburi

Ex-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro

Yoshi Katō

Chiyokichi Motoura

Kazuhide Haruta

Hideo Motoura

Ken Ogata

Kenichi Miki

Seiji Matsuyama

Shokichi Miki

Taketoshi Naitō

Search Section Chief

Chishū Ryū

Kojuro Kirihara

Masumi Harukawa

Naka Sumie

Yoshio Inaba

Search Chief Clerk

Tokue Hanazawa

Miki's Colleague in Flashback

Kinzō Shin

Linguistics Professor Kuwabara

K

Kappei Matsumoto

Mimori Police Chief

Jun Hamamura

Patrolman

Takanobu Hozumi

Matsuzaki

Hatsuo Yamaya

Iwagi Police Chief

Kin Sugai

Yamashita

Akiko Nomura

Old Woman at Wakaba Apartment

K

Kazuko Imai

Kenichi Miki's Wife

M

Mitsuyo Inomata

Waitress at Bar Ron

Yokichi Gotou

Tsutsui

A

Akira Sera

Fan Shop Owner

Akira Kubo

Patrolman at Setagaya

K

Keiji Tsuchida

West Kamata Chief Detective

Kibaji Tankobo

West Kamata Detective

M

Mitsuru Yamazaki

West Kamata Detective

K

Kentarō Imai

K

Kôei Yamamoto

H

Hideaki Komori

Metropolitan Police HQ Detective

Ryōko Mizuki

Kiyoshi Atsumi

Movie Theater Manager

Taiji Tonoyama

Publican at Ebisu

A

Asaya Fujita

Forensic Technician

T

Tatsuo Sakurabe

Surgeon at Setagaya

K

Ken'ichi Katô

Policeman driving jeep at Mimori Station

H

Hisashi Imahashi

Asahi Shop Owner

S

Sanpeita Mori

Detective at Iwagi Station

J

Junko Yoshida

Clerk at Naniwa Yakusho

M

Mitsuzô Nakamura

Policeman at Ebisu

A

Akira Matsuda

Clerk in Charge at Naniwa Yakusho

T

Tatsuki Bessho

Bartender at Bar Ron

Y

Yuri Takase

Waitress at Bar Ron

T

Teishiro Nishijima

West Kamata Police Chief

K

Kyôsuke Matsunami

S

Shin Kitayama

West Kamata Detective

U

Ura Shintarô

West Kamata Detective

T

Takuo Senga

West Kamata Detective

K

Kimiji Harada

Y

Yuji Osugi

S

Shintaro Mishima

Y

Yuichi Kikuchi

Waga's Friend

Tatsuhiro Ito

Y

Yukihide Yamamoto

Metropolitan Police HQ Detective

N

Noriyuki Watanabe

West Kamata Detective

K

Kentarō Imai

Metropolitan Police HQ Detective

H

Hideto Nakagawa

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