Dangan Runner 1996  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: Non-Stop
Director: Sabu(2)
Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi, Diamond Yukai, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Akaji Maro, Ren Osugi, Hiroshi Simizu
Yasuda (Tomorowo Taguchi), unhappy in both his personal and professional lives, decides to rob a bank. On the way, he steals a mask at a convenience store, fights with the clerk Aizawa (Diamond Yukai), and runs. Unfortunately, Aizawa, who is chasing Yasuda, runs into mobster Takeda (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) to whom he owes money. Now all three are in a mad chase across Tokyo.
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life 1993  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Shiro Sano, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Yang Haitin, Hou De Jian, Kaho Minami, Akaji Maro, Shinya Tsukamoto, Jo Shishido, Haruko Wanibuchi
Private eye Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) is plying his trade in Yokohama when he agrees to track down the brother of a waiter (Yang Haitin). Too late, Maiku Hama finds himself at the center of a gang war. There are sequels ("The Stairway to the Distant Past" and "The Trap").
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The Stairway to the Distant Planet 1994 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Haruko Wanibuchi, Shiro Sano, Eiji Okada, Tetta Sugimoto, Mika Ohmine, Shinya Tsukamoto, Jo Shishido, Akaji Maro, Sumiko Sakamoto, Noriko Sengoku
This is the second of three Detective Hama films (preceded by "The Most Terrible Time of My Life" and followed by "The Trap"). This time around, Mike Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) investigates the true identity of a crime lord known as the White Man (Eiji Okada) and, in the process, uncovers surprising information about his own father.
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The Trap 1996  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Yui Natsukawa, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Shiro Sano, Akaji Maro, Jo Shishido, Mika Ohmine, Hiro Arai, Tetta Sugimoto
This is the last of the Detective Maiku Hama trilogy (preceded by "The Most Terrible Time in My Life" and "The Stairway to the Distant Past"), and Masatoshi Nagase is back in his role playing that bungling detective. This time around Maiku Hama's fingerprints are appearing on the corpses of murdered women, and he must work hard to clear his name.
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| 1. Dangan Runner (1996)
aka: Non-Stop
2. The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1993)
3. The Stairway to the Distant Planet (1994)
4. The Trap (1996)
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