17 Aug 1951
The Tall Target
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
Scrap Heaven
The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.
Top Billed Cast
加瀬亮 Shingo
オダギリジョー Tetsu Katsurai
栗山千明 Saki Fujimura
光石研 Chief Shimada
森下能幸 Nurse Sato
田中哲司 Bus Hijacker
水木薫 Saki's Mother
鈴木砂羽 Misa Aikawa
山田辰夫 Mamoru Kutsui
柄本明 Detective Yabuta
団時朗 Yoshida Seiichiro
眞島秀和 Tadayoshi Kato 紺野相龍 Takama Suzuki
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