Great Jailbreak (1975)

7.0/10 91 min Action Crime

Overview

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.

Cast

Ken Takakura

Ichiro Kozue

Nana Kinomi

Aki

Bunta Sugawara

Kunizo Kuniiwa

Eiji Gō

Gota Namikawa

Kunie Tanaka

Goda

Asao Koike

Sagawa

Hideo Murota

Daichi

Yoshi Katō

Kazami

Gōzō Sōma

Detective

Rinichi Yamamoto

Noboru Mitani

Hiroshi Tanaka

Keiji Takamiya

Kōji Mitsui

Hirohisa Nakata

Kyōichi Satō

Masao Imafuku

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