Great Jailbreak
1975A 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.
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Ken Takakura
as Ichiro Kozue
Nana Kinomi
as Aki
Bunta Sugawara
as Kunizo Kuniiwa
Eiji Gō
as Gota Namikawa
Kunie Tanaka
as Goda
Asao Koike
as Sagawa
Hideo Murota
as Daichi
Yoshi Katō
as Kazami
Tatsuo Ito
as Koichi Akada
Gōzō Sōma
as Detective
Rinichi Yamamoto
Noboru Mitani
Hiroshi Tanaka
Keiji Takamiya
Kōji Mitsui
Hirohisa Nakata
Kyōichi Satō
Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama
Tatsuya Kameyama
Masao Imafuku
Tokuko Sugiyama
Sayoko Tanimoto
Genji Kawai
Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Kōji Fujiyama