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Jubaku: Spellbound (1999)

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 1H 54M

Director : Masato Harada

Synopsis

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Miho Wada) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

Actors

Kōji Yakusho
Kōji Yakusho
Hiroshi Kitano
Tatsuya Nakadai
Tatsuya Nakadai
Hideaki Sasaki
Yumi Takigawa
Yumi Takigawa
Nobue Aoki
Kippei Shiina
Kippei Shiina
Akio Katayama
Tetsurō Tamba
Tetsurō Tamba
Tajiro Kawakami
Jinpachi Nezu
Jinpachi Nezu
Kohei Nakayama
Renji Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi
Nakazawa
Mayumi Wakamura
Mayumi Wakamura
Jun Fubuki
Jun Fubuki
Yumi Takigawa
Yumi Takigawa
Hitomi Kuroki
Hitomi Kuroki
Kenichi Endo
Kenichi Endo
Yuko Nakamura
Yuko Nakamura

Crews

Masato Harada
Masato Harada
Director
Satoshi Suzuki
Satoshi Suzuki
Writer
Mugita Kinoshita
Mugita Kinoshita
Writer
Ryo Takasugi
Ryo Takasugi
Writer
Masato Hara
Masato Hara
Producer
Masahiro Kawasaki
Masahiro Kawasaki
Music
Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Director of Photography
Akimasa Kawashima
Akimasa Kawashima
Editor
Kyôko Heya
Kyôko Heya
Art Direction

Posters and backgrounds

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