A Certain Killer

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A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

Released: Apr 29, 1967

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Raizō Ichikawa

Shiozawa

Yumiko Nogawa

Keiko

Mikio Narita

Maeda

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