The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)
Overview
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 0.606 |
Directed By
Kaizo Hayashi
Crew
Kaizo Hayashi
Kaizo Hayashi
Tomohisa Masumoto
Kazutoshi Wadakura
Tatsuya Osada
Masae Miyamoto
Ayako Uchida
Koji Hagiuda
Daisaku Kobayashi
Daisuke Tengan
Yôko Kumagai
Hidehiko Urayama
Yuichi Nagata
Nobuko Tomita
Takeo Kimura
Isao Yukisada
Yutaka Gotô
Kazutoshi Wadakura
Motoki Ishida
Kaizo Hayashi
TOP CAST
Masatoshi Nagase
Maiku Hama
Haruko Wanibuchi
Lily Hama
Eiji Okada
White Man
Mika Ohmine
Akane Hama
Shirō Sano
Masaru Kanno
Kiyotaka Nanbara
Hoshino
Tetta Sugimoto
Sugimoto
Shinya Tsukamoto
Yamaguchi
Jō Shishido
Jo Shishido
Keiji Matsuda
Matsuda
Akaji Maro
Lt. Nakayama
Kazuko Shirakawa
Sachiko Shibata
Sumiko Sakamoto
Minato Mary
Noriko Sengoku
Asa
Yoichi Sai
Chief of Police
Shûji Yamamoto
Bum
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