Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel (2014)

5.8/10 110 min TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery

Overview

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.

Cast

Takeshi Kitano

Rokuro Fujisawa

Eita Nagayama

Yoshitaka Ichimura

Fumino Kimura

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Eiko Koike

Yoko Fujisawa

Kazuhisa Kawahara

Kenji Anan

Kotaro Shiga

Takeshi Masu

Makoto Ashikawa

Hiroshi Takahashi

Kenji Kasai

Kenjiro Nashimoto

Kenji Mizuhashi

Kyusaku Shimada

Nicholas Pettas

Steve Wiley

Hiromi Kitagawa

Kei Otozuki

Akira Otaka

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