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58% Critic Match
The Beast to Die
5.8 / 10• 1980• 1h 58m•NR• Japanese
ActionCrimeThriller
Storyline
A Nietzschean journalist who covered the Vietnam War, Lebanese Civil War and other conflicts becomes mentally unstable and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
Cast & Crew
Yūsaku Matsuda
Kunihiko Date
Lead
Asami Kobayashi
Reiko Hanada
Hideo Murota
Hideyuki Kashiwagi
Rikiya Yasuoka
Minehara
Yoshirō Aoki
Okada
Kai Ato
Tojo
Eimei Esumi
Umezu
Hirokazu Inoue
Tachibana
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Tōru Murakawa's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Beast to Die is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
