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Jubaku: Spellbound(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-09-18
60%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 54m
Overview:
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Jubaku: Spellbound
Top 10 Billed Cast
役所広司
Hiroshi Kitano
仲代達矢
Hideaki Sasaki
椎名桔平
Akio Katayama
丹波哲郎
Tajiro Kawakami
根津甚八
Kohei Nakayama
風吹ジュン
Kyoko Kitano
石橋蓮司
Masao Nakazawa
若村麻由美
Miho Wada
黒木瞳
Hiroko Sato
遠藤憲一
Onoki
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