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Castle of Sand (1991) | Slate

Castle of Sand

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Castle of Sand

砂の器

What is the dark fate of a young up-and-coming artist who is on the verge of achieving glory? The story depicts the fate of a detective who relentlessly pursues a murder case that seemed to be heading into a labyrinth, and the young man who is the culprit. It was produced and aired on the TV Asahi network on October 1, 1991 (20:02-22:24) as the "Each station's competition series commemorating the 40th anniversary of Matsumoto Seicho's work" (each station created two Seicho works) . TV drama (1 episode in total). Selected from the top 21 programs of the 9th ATP Awards .

Released: 1991
Runtime: 1h 12m
Genres: Thriller
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese

Direction and writing

Kazuo IkehiroDirector

Hiroshi TakeyamaScreenplay

Where to watch

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Cast

Koichi SatoHideyoshi Waga
Kunie TanakaEitaro Imanishi
Sayuri KunioSachiko Tadokoro

Tsuyoshi IharaHiroshi Yoshimura

Mayumi OkaRieko Naruse

Atom ShimojoKenichi Miki

Nagahide TakahashiChiyokichi Motoura

Eiichiro FunakoshiShigeo Sekikawa

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