30 Dec 2008
A Frozen Flower
A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Top Billed Cast
菅原文太 Shozo Hirono
松方弘樹 Tetsuya Sakai
田中邦衛 Masakichi Makihara
中村英子 Suzue Kunihiro
渡瀬恒彦 Toshio Arita
伊吹吾郎 Ueda
金子信雄 Yoshio Yamamori
木村俊恵 Mrs. Yamamori
川地民夫 Kanbara Seiichi
渚まゆみ Akiko Shinjo
内田朝雄 Okubo Kenichi
三上真一郎 Shinkai Uichi
名和宏 Doi
高野眞二 Kaneko Shoichi
曽根晴美 Shuji Yano
中村錦司 Nakahara Shigeto
林彰太郎 Matsunaga Takeshi
福本清三 Shimonaka Ryuji
高宮敬二 Yamakata Shinichi
小池朝雄 Narrator
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