Castle of Sand
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Plot
The film tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard. When the identity of the old man can't be determined, the investigation focuses on the only other clue: a scrap of conversation overheard at a bar between the old man and a younger one. A witness recalls the cryptic phrases "Kameda did this" and "Kameda doesn't change."
This sets off a wide-ranging investigation that covers vast swaths of geography, changing social mores, and time. The investigation ends with an emotional and heartbreaking conclusion, all the more shattering because the reason for the crime no longer exists in the world.[3]
Cast
- Tetsuro Tamba – Detective Eitaro Imanishi
- Go Kato – Eiryo Waga/Hideo Motoura
- Kensaku Morita – Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura
- Yoko Shimada – Rieko Takagi
- Karin Yamaguchi – Sachiko Tadokoro
- Ken Ogata – Kenichi Miki
- Seiji Matsuyama – Shokichi Miki
- Yoshi Katō – Chiyokichi Motoura
- Chishū Ryū – Kojuro Kirihara
- Taketoshi Naito
- Yoshio Inaba
- Shin Saburi – Shigeyoshi Tadokoro
- Kinzō Shin
Awards
- 1975 Kinema Junpo Award[4]
- Best Screenplay (Shinobu Hashimoto and Yōji Yamada)
- Readers' Choice Award
- Best Japanese Film Director (Yoshitaro Nomura)
- 1975 Mainichi Film Concours
- Best Director (Yoshitaro Nomura)
- Best Film (Yoshitaro Nomura)
- Best Film Score (Kosuke Sugano )
- Best Screenplay (Shinobu Hashimoto and Yōji Yamada)
- 9th Moscow International Film Festival[5]
- Diploma (Yoshitaro Nomura)
- Nominated for Golden Prize (Yoshitaro Nomura).
References
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- 1974 crime thriller films
- 1970s Japanese films
- 1970s Japanese-language films
- 1970s mystery films
- 1974 films
- Films based on Japanese novels
- Films directed by Yoshitaro Nomura
- Films set in 1971
- Films set in Ishikawa Prefecture
- Films set in Tokyo
- Films set in Akita Prefecture
- Films set in Yamanashi Prefecture
- Films set in Osaka
- Films set in Shimane Prefecture
- Films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto
- Films with screenplays by Yôji Yamada
- Procedural films
- Shochiku films
- Works about leprosy
- Works originally published in Japanese newspapers
- Films scored by Yasushi Akutagawa
- Films based on works by Seichō Matsumoto