Film

Phone Call to the Bar

2011 · 2h 5m · Action · Drama · Crime

IMDb

6.3

In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.

Yo Oizumi

The Detective

Ryuhei Matsuda

Takada

Koyuki

Saori

Toshiyuki Nishida

Toshio Kirishima

Satomi Achiwa

Yasuko Taguchi

Tamae Ando

Mineko

Yoshiki Arizono

Kohei Taguchi

Renji Ishibashi

Kyosuke Iwabuchi

Ryuji Katagiri

Kajiwara-Gumi Kumichô

Shion Machida

Kyoko Kondo

Carmen Maki

Maki

Yutaka Matsushige

Aida

Yasukaze Motomiya

Mitsugu Iwabuchi

Ikuji Nakamura

Minami

Kazuki Namioka

Sayama

Keiko Takeshita

Yuriko Kondo

• Hajime HashimotoDirector
• Ryota KosawaScreenplay
• Yasushi SutôScreenplay · Producer
• Naomi AzumaNovel
• Megumi UedaProducer
• Tomomi ImagawaProducer
• Takashi HirajoExecutive Producer
• Kazushige TanakaDirector of Photography
• Yoshihiro IkeOriginal Music Composer
• Shin'ya TadanoEditor

Release date

September 10, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 5m

Genres

Action, Drama, Crime

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