Apr 09, 1960
86 min
Full-HD

The Sleeping Beast Within (1960)

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown.

Category

Action Crime

Country

Japan

Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

Hiroyuki Nagato

Shotaro Kasai

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Keiko Ueki

Shoichi Ozawa

Reporter Horibe

Shinsuke Ashida

Junpei Ueki

Hisano Yamaoka

Hisa Ueki

Tsutomu Shimomoto

Nagamine

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Komatsu Hiroshi

Keisuke Noro

Wang

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