Jubaku: Spellbound (1999)

6.4/10 114 min Drama

Overview

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 (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

Cast

Koji Yakusho

Hiroshi Kitano

Tatsuya Nakadai

Hideaki Sasaki

Kippei Shiina

Akio Katayama

Tetsuro Tamba

Tajiro Kawakami

Jinpachi Nezu

Kohei Nakayama

Jun Fubuki

Kyoko Kitano

Renji Ishibashi

Masao Nakazawa

Mayumi Wakamura

Miho Wada

Hitomi Kuroki

Hiroko Sato

Kenichi Endo

Onoki

Yuko Nakamura

Receptionist

Yasukaze Motomiya

Young Man

Yumi Takigawa

Nobue Aoki

Kenichi Yajima

Takuya Ishii

Ikuji Nakamura

Hideki Matsubara

Masako Motai

Ichijo

Hirotaro Honda

Jinnai

Yasukiyo Umeno

Noboru Sakamoto

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Shuzo Yoshino

Nobuyuki Katsube

Katsuhisa Ota

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