The Most Dangerous Game
1978 · 89 min · ★ 6.3 · Action, Crime
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract.
Directed by Tōru Murakawa · Written by Hideichi Nagahara
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Yūsaku Matsuda Shouhei Narumi - K Keiko Tasaka Kyoko Sasaka
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Yōko Ichiji -
Daigo Kusano -
Asao Uchida Kohinata -
Bontarō Miake -
Hiroshi Nawa -
Ryuji Katagiri -
Hitoshi Ōmae -
Iwao Dan -
Kai Ato - R Riki Harada
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