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Doctor Mad Jun 3, 2025

'The Killing Game' | 殺人遊戯 | 'Satsujin Yugi' (1978), directed by #TôruMurakawa and staring the incomparable #YusakuMatsuda.
I do miss you dearly Matsuda-san... 🙏 🍶
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Hayley Scanlon May 29, 2023

A maverick cop realises he can only enforce the law by breaking it in Toru Murakawa's hardboiled '80s noir, Break Out. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jbC

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Break Out (行き止まりの挽歌ブレイクアウト, Toru Murakawa, 1988)

A maverick cop realises he can only enforce the law by breaking it in Toru Murakawa’s hardboiled ’80s noir.

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Hayley Scanlon Dec 24, 2022

A trio of teenage boys end up on the run after an altercation with an authoritarian police officer in Toru Murakawa's empathetic social drama, The Shootout.

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