09 Aug 2002
Blood Work
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
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乙羽信子 
高杉早苗 
殿山泰司 
浜村純 
菅井一郎 
宇野重吉 
小沢栄太郎 
東野英治郎 
清水将夫 
三島雅夫 永田靖 御橋公 
信欣三 斎藤美和 
下元勉 
坪内美子 
北林谷栄 
神田隆 小笠原章二郎 武田正憲
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