The Castle of Sand (1974) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Yoshitarō Nomura.

Cast

• Tetsuro Tamba as Detective Eitaro Imanishi
• Gō Katō as Eiro Waga
• Kensaku Morita as Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura
• Yoko Shimada as Reiko Takagi
• Karin Yamaguchi as Sachiko Tadakoro
• Shin Saburi as Ex-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro
• Yoshi Katō as Chiyokichi Motoura
• Kazuhide Haruta as Hideo Motoura
• Ken Ogata as Kenichi Miki
• Seiji Matsuyama as Shokichi Miki
• Taketoshi Naitō as Search Section Chief
• Chishū Ryū as Kojuro Kirihara
• Masumi Harukawa as Naka Sumie
• Yoshio Inaba as Search Chief Clerk
• Tokue Hanazawa as Miki's Colleague in Flashback
• Kinzō Shin as Linguistics Professor Kuwabara
• Kappei Matsumoto as Mimori Police Chief
• Jun Hamamura as Patrolman
• Takanobu Hozumi as Matsuzaki
• Hatsuo Yamaya as Iwagi Police Chief
• Kin Sugai as Yamashita
• Akiko Nomura as Old Woman at Wakaba Apartment
• Kazuko Imai as Kenichi Miki's Wife
• Mitsuyo Inomata as Waitress at Bar Ron
• Yokichi Gotou as Tsutsui
• Akira Sera as Fan Shop Owner
• Akira Kubo as Patrolman at Setagaya
• Keiji Tsuchida as West Kamata Chief Detective
• Kibaji Tankobo as West Kamata Detective
• Mitsuru Yamazaki as West Kamata Detective
• Kentarō Imai
• Kôei Yamamoto
• Hideaki Komori as Metropolitan Police HQ Detective
• Ryōko Mizuki
• Kiyoshi Atsumi as Movie Theater Manager
• Taiji Tonoyama as Publican at Ebisu
• Asaya Fujita as Forensic Technician
• Tatsuo Sakurabe as Surgeon at Setagaya
• Ken'ichi Katô as Policeman driving jeep at Mimori Station
• Hisashi Imahashi as Asahi Shop Owner

Crew

• Yoshitarō Nomura — Director
• Seicho Matsumoto — Novel
• Shinobu Hashimoto — Producer
• Yoshiharu Mishima — Producer
• Masayuki Satō — Producer
• Takashi Kawamata — Director of Photography
• Shinobu Hashimoto — Screenplay
• Yoji Yamada — Screenplay
• Mitsuaki Kanno — Original Music Composer

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