24 Jul 2013
It Ends with the Taste of Smoke
Conversation between man and woman that leads to some unexpected events.

A movie adaptation of the novel of the same name by Haku Kenjo .
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.

Me

Akiko Tamura

Shuji Sayama

Machiko Nakajima






24 Jul 2013
Conversation between man and woman that leads to some unexpected events.

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