Movie: Amagi Pass
Romaji: Amagi goe
Japanese:
Director: Haruhiko Mimura
Writer: Tai Kato, Seicho Matsumoto (novel), Haruhiko Mimura
Producer: Shuji Miyajima, Yoshitaro Nomura
Cinematographer: Yoshimasa Hakata
Release Date: February 19, 1983
Runtime: 99 min.
Studio: Shochiku
Distributor: Shochiku
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
A high school boy runs away from home and sets out on trip to Amagi Pass and encounters a geisha girl named Hana. They then come across a drifter who is later found murdered. Hana becomes a prime suspect and the boy gets interrogated by the police. The boy refuses to implicate her.
40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, is visited by a retired policeman from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself ...
Notes
Based on a novel by Seicho Matsumoto.
Related titles:
Amagi Goe (TBS / 1998)
Cast
Tsunehiko Watase - Matsunojo Tajima, the cop
Yuko Tanaka - Hana Otsuka, prostitute
Mikijiro Hira - Kenzo Onodera
Yoichi Ito - Kenzo Onodera, as a boy
Kazuko Yoshiyuki - Kenzo's mother
Kenzo Kaneko - Carpenter
Ichiro Ogura - Kenzo's uncle
Renji Ishibashi - Ryosaku Tsuchiya
Kirin Kiki - Ryosaku's wife
Jiro Sakagami - Sweet shop owner
Tanie Kitabayashi - Tea house's old woman
Makoto Sato - Police in chief
Hatsuo Yamatani - Police
Katsunobu Ito - Police
Dankichi Kuruma - Driver
Chieko Enomoto - Office worker
Seiya Nakano - Police
Go Kato - Doctor
Yuki Watase