Playtime Never Ends (1991)

8.0/10 111 min Comedy Crime

Overview

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.

Cast

Masahiro Motoki

Hirata

Renji Ishibashi

Top of Police Branch

Tadashi Nishikawa

Nagare Hagiwara

Local TV Producer

Haruhiko Saito

Old Detective

Makoto Akatsuka

Daijirō Harada

Kazuyuki Matsuzawa

Masayuki Imai

Maiko Ogo

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Michiko Ameku

Nobuo Tsukamoto

Masuyo Iwamoto

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