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1995

The Stairway to the Distant Past

Directed by Kaizo Hayashi

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.

Duration

1h 41m

Released

March 18, 1995

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Cast24

  • Masatoshi Nagase
  • Haruko Wanibuchi
  • Eiji Okada
  • Sumiko Sakamoto
  • Joe Shishido
  • Kiyotaka Nanbara
  • Françoise Moréchand
  • Mika Ohmine
  • Shiro Sano

Part ofThe Maiku Hama Private Eye Trilogy

Includes The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994), The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995), and The Trap (1996).

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