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Suna no utsuwa (1974)
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10 October 1975 (USA)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tetsurô Tanba | ... | Detective Imanishi |
| Go Kato | ... | Eiryo Waga |
| Kensaku Morita | ... | Detective Yoshimura |
| Yôko Shimada | ... | Reiko |
| Karin Yamaguchi | ... | Sachiko |
| Ken Ogata | ... | Miki |
| Seiji Matsuyama | ... | Miki's Son |
| Yoshi Katô | ... | Waga's Father |
| Chishû Ryû | ... | Kirihara |
| Shin Saburi | ... | Ex-Finance Minister Tadokoro |
| Kiyoshi Atsumi | ... | Movie Theater Manager |
| Kazuhide Kasuga | ... | Motoura Hideo |
| Junko Natsu | ... | Akiko, hostess at Cabaret Bonuru |
| Taketoshi Naitô | ... | Search section chief |
| Masumi Harukawa | ... | Naka Sumie, woman at fan shop |
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The Castle of Sand (USA)
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I just saw this movie for the first time last night at the Japanese Film Festival held in Melbourne. It was a re-mastered print and on the huge screen it was magnificent. The flashback scenes with the father and son set to the stunning musical score seemed like a completely different movie to what had preceded. But to me, final scenes are important - a skillful movie ending turns a good film into a great film. A bad ending turns an average to good film into a piece of rubbish. As far as Castle of Sand is concerned, what started out as an interesting detective story ended as a sweeping piece which left me walking out of the cinema thinking "That was incredible!!".
Japanese cinema rarely fails to impress me. I keep discovering more and more gems, usually from years gone by when I was too young to experience them at the time.