Jubaku: Spellbound (1999)
Original title: 金融腐蝕列島〔呪縛〕
Jubaku: Spellbound is a 1999 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Masato Harada, with a running time of 1h 54m. It stars Koji Yakusho, Tatsuya Nakadai and Kippei Shiina.
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.
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What is Jubaku: Spellbound about?
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.
When was Jubaku: Spellbound released?
Jubaku: Spellbound was released on 18 September 1999.
How long is Jubaku: Spellbound?
Jubaku: Spellbound runs 1h 54m.
Who made Jubaku: Spellbound?
Jubaku: Spellbound was directed by Masato Harada.
Cast
- Koji Yakusho as Hiroshi Kitano
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Hideaki Sasaki
- Kippei Shiina as Akio Katayama
- Tetsuro Tamba as Tajiro Kawakami
- Jinpachi Nezu as Kohei Nakayama
- Jun Fubuki as Kyoko Kitano
- Renji Ishibashi as Masao Nakazawa
- Mayumi Wakamura as Miho Wada
- Hitomi Kuroki as Hiroko Sato
- Kenichi Endo as Onoki
- Yuko Nakamura as Receptionist
- Yasukaze Motomiya as Young Man