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The Castle of Sand

1974 · 143 min

A patient, sorrowful procedural that accumulates quiet detail until its devastating emotional payoff lands like a blow.

Directed by: Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Gō Katō, Kensaku Morita

Overview: Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

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Directed by: Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Gō Katō, Kensaku Morita

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
isolation
guilt
memory
justice
Places: big city
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: procedural
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: crime, mystery, drama
Directed by: Yoshitarō Nomura
Written by: Yoji Yamada, Shinobu Hashimoto
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Gō Katō, Kensaku Morita, Yoko Shimada, Karin Yamaguchi, Shin Saburi, Yoshi Katō, Kazuhide Haruta
Music: Mitsuaki Kanno
Cinematography: Takashi Kawamata
Runtime: 143 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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