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A Savage Beast Goes Mad

A Savage Beast Goes Mad

19766.31h 18m

Overview

Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.

Directed by Sadao Nakajima
Written by Sadao Nakajima, Kiyohide Ohara, Ikuo Sekimoto
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Top Cast

Tsunehiko Watase

Tsunehiko Watase

Shin Hayami

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Maki Tachibana

Kaoru Tachibana

Takuzō Kawatani

Takuzō Kawatani

Saburo Tanimura

Hideo Murota

Hideo Murota

Shimosaka

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Jun Hoshino

Miyoko Iwasaki

Ryuji Katagiri

Ryuji Katagiri

Toshio Kirino

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Masako Araki

Masae Toda

Masataka Iwao

Masataka Iwao

Kitamura

Kan Mikami

Kan Mikami

Singer

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Mihoko Nakagawa

Harumi Kobayashi

Themes & Keywords

bus hijacking

About A Savage Beast Goes Mad

A Savage Beast Goes Mad is a action, drama, crime film released in 1976 exploring themes of bus hijacking. Directed by Sadao Nakajima, it stars Tsunehiko Watase, Maki Tachibana, Takuzō Kawatani. Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.

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