Great Jailbreak (1975)
Overview
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.
Cast
Ken Takakura
Ichiro Kozue
Nana Kinomi
Aki
Bunta Sugawara
Kunizo Kuniiwa
Eiji Gō
Gota Namikawa
Kunie Tanaka
Goda
Asao Koike
Sagawa
Hideo Murota
Daichi
Yoshi Katō
Kazami
Gōzō Sōma
Detective
Rinichi Yamamoto
Noboru Mitani
Hiroshi Tanaka
Keiji Takamiya
Kōji Mitsui
Hirohisa Nakata
Kyōichi Satō
Masao Imafuku
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