The Castle of Sand (1974)
Suna no utsuwa
143 min
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
- Release date
- October 19, 1974
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Yasushi Akutagawa
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Trailer
Cast
- Tetsurō Tanba as Eitaro Imanishi
- Gô Katô as Eiryo Waga
- Kensaku Morita as Hiroshi Yoshimura
- Yôko Shimada as Reiko Takagi
- Karin Yamaguchi as Sachiko Tadokoro
- Shin Saburi as Ex-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro
- Yoshi Katô as Chiyokichi Motoura
- Kazuhide Haruta as Hideo Motoura
- Ken Ogata as Kenichi Miki
- Seiji Matsuyama as Miki's Son
- Taketoshi Naitō as Search Section Chief
- Chishū Ryū as Kirihara
- Masumi Harukawa as Naka Sumie
- Yoshio Inaba as Search Chief Clerk
- Tokue Hanazawa as Miki's Colleague in Flashback
- Kinzō Shin as Linguistics Professor Kuwabara
- Kappei Matsumoto as Mimori Police Chief
- Jun Hamamura as Patrolman
- Takanobu Hozumi as Matsuzaki
- Hatsuo Yamaya as Iwagi Police Chief
- Kin Sugai as Yamashita
- Akiko Nomura as Old Woman at Wakaba Apartment
- Kazuko Imai as Kenichi Miki's Wife
- Mitsuyo Inomata as Waitress at Bar Ron
- Yôkichi Gotô as Tsutsui
- Akira Sera as Fan Shop Owner
- Akira Kubo as Patrolman at Setagaya
- Kibaji Tankobo as West Kamata Detective
- Junko Natsu as Akiko
Crew
- Yoshitarō Nomura · Director
- Seichô Matsumoto · Writer
- Shinobu Hashimoto · Writer
- Yōji Yamada · Writer
- Yoshitarō Nomura · Writer
- Shinobu Hashimoto · Producer
- Yoshiharu Mishima · Producer
- Masayuki Satô · Producer
- Yasushi Akutagawa · Composer
- Takashi Kawamata · Cinematographer
- Kazuo Ôta · Editor
- Kaneo Kawanabe · Production designer