The Blue Beast (1960)
1h 35m
Running Time
June 26, 1960Release Date
The Blue Beast (1960)
1h 35m
Running Time
June 26, 1960Release Date
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Plot.
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.
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Cast & Crew.

Tatsuya Nakadai

Yōko Tsukasa

Keiko Awaji

Jun Tazaki

Koreya Senda

Ichirō Nakatani

Yatsuko Tan'ami

Kō Nishimura

Yasuhiko Saijō

Ken Mitsuda

Kazuo Suzuki

Sanezumi Fujimoto
Executive Producer

Yoshio Shirasaka
Screenplay

Wataru Onuma
Sound Recordist

Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor

Hiroshi Ueda
Art Direction

Hiromichi Horikawa
Director

Hiromitsu Mori
Lighting Technician

Hideo Onchi
Assistant Director

Asakazu Nakai
Director of Photography

Sei Ikeno
Original Music Composer

Masakatsu Kaneko
Executive Producer

Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Recordist

Fumie Noguchi
Details.
Release DateJune 26, 1960
Original Name青い野獣
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
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Wiki.
The Blue Beast (青い野獣, Aoi Yajū) is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Hiromichi Horikawa. The film is about a former leftist activist Yashuhiko Kuroki (Tatsuya Nakadai) who becomes a right wing opportunist by betraying his co-workers and friends during a strike.