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Jubaku: Spellbound

  • 1999
  • TMDB 6.2/10
  • 1h 54m

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

Overview

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

Cast

  • Koji YakushoHiroshi Kitano
  • Tatsuya NakadaiHideaki Sasaki
  • Kippei ShiinaAkio Katayama
  • Tetsuro TambaTajiro Kawakami
  • Jinpachi NezuKohei Nakayama
  • Jun FubukiKyoko Kitano
  • Renji IshibashiMasao Nakazawa
  • Mayumi WakamuraMiho Wada

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