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Yajû shisubeshi

IMDb ID: tt0313796 · Year: 1959 · Rating: 7.3 (110 votes)

Genres: Action · Crime

A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One of the first "lonely hit-man" or "lonely k...

IMDb Details

Content TypeMovieAlternate TitlesItaly: Frenesia di uccidere
Brazil: Morte à Fera
World-wide: The Beast Shall Die (English)
Soviet Union: Зверь должен умереть (Russian)
Japan: 野獣死すべし(1959) (Japanese)
The Beast Shall Die
Release Date1959-06-09Runtime96 minutesIMDb Popularity0User Reviews0Critic Reviews3Countries / RegionsJapanLanguagesJapaneseKeywordsyakuza
mother
student
killer
father
Production CompaniesTohoIMDb URLhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313796/Local Poster/d/file/imdb/03/tt0313796.jpgUpdated At2025-08-20T22:13:32

Stars

Tatsuya Nakadai
Hiroshi Koizumi
Reiko Dan
Yumi Shirakawa
Makoto Satô
Eiko Miyoshi
Michiyo Yokoyama
Ichirô Shimizu
Yoshio Shirasaka
Nobuo Nakamura

Directors

Eizô Sugawa

Writers

Yoshio Shirasaka
Haruhiko Ôyabu

Full Cast & Crew

[Cast Group]
Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai | Character: Kunihiko Date
Actor: Hiroshi Koizumi | Character: Detective Masugi
Actor: Reiko Dan | Character: Taeko Kusumi
Actor: Yumi Shirakawa | Character: Yôko Mine
Actor: Makoto Satô | Character: Mita, bodyguard
Actor: Eiko Miyoshi | Character: Flower selling woman
Actor: Michiyo Yokoyama | Character: Waitress
Actor: Ichirô Shimizu | Character: Head detective of Investigation Headquarters
Actor: Yoshio Shirasaka | Character: Tsuji
Actor: Nobuo Nakamura | Character: Professor Sugimura
Actor: Eijirō Tōno | Character: Detective Kawashima
Actor: Yūsuke Takita | Character: Endô, newspaper reporter
Actor: Ryo Takeuchi | Character: Tezuka
Actor: Haruya Katô | Character: Student
Actor: Nadao Kirino | Character: Student
Actor: Akira Sera | Character: Detective Okada
Actor: Tetsu Nakamura | Character: Charlie Chin
Actor: Kenzō Tabu | Character: Doctor
Actor: Akira Tani | Character: Apartment manager
Actor: Yutaka Sada | Character: Actor
Actor: Yasuhisa Tsutsumi | Character: Actor
Actor: Shirô Tsuchiya | Character: Actor
Actor: Shôichi Hirose | Character: Actor
Actor: Kyôko Mori | Character: Waitress at Lolita A
Actor: Kôji Uno | Character: Actor
Actor: Kyorô Sakurai | Character: Actor
Actor: Fumindo Matsuo | Character: Actor
Actor: Etsuo Saijô | Character: Actor
Actor: Mitsuo Tsuda | Character: Actor
Actor: Kenji Kasahara | Character: Actor
Actor: Tadashi Okabe | Character: Actor
Actor: Yoshikazu Kawamata | Character: Actor
Actor: Akiko Wakabayashi | Character: Waitress at Lolita B
Actor: Kyôko Kuri | Character: Actress
Actor: Tamao Nishina | Character: Actor
Actor: Kisao Hatamochi | Character: Actor
Actor: Yutaka Nakayama | Character: Actor
Actor: Ichirô Chiba | Character: Actor
Actor: Junnosuke Suda | Character: Actor
Actor: Akio Kusama | Character: Detective of Investigation Headquarters

[Directors Group]
Name: Eizô Sugawa | Role: Director

[Writers Group]
Name: Yoshio Shirasaka | Role: Writer
Name: Haruhiko Ôyabu | Role: Writer

[Producers Group]
Name: Sanezumi Fujimoto | Role: Producer
Name: Masakatsu Kaneko | Role: Producer

[Music Group]
Name: Toshirō Mayuzumi | Role: Composer

[Cinematography Group]
Name: Fukuzô Koizumi | Role: Cinematographer

[Editing Group]
Name: Reiko Kaneko | Role: Editor

[Production Design Group]
Name: Kyoe Hamagami | Role: Production Designer

[Art Direction Group]
Name: Hyoei Hamagami | Role: Art Director

[Assistant Directors]
Name: Ken Sano | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director

[Sound Department]
Name: Toshiya Ban | Role: Sound Department
Name: Hisashi Shimonaga | Role: Sound Department

[Camera and Electrical Department]
Name: Norikazu Inda | Role: Camera and Electrical Department

Trailers

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Release Schedule

Japan: June 9, 1959

Awards

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Box Office

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