Shuffle (1981)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1981
Running Times: 34 mins
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CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Dynamite Productions/ATG
Producer: Mitsuhiko Akita

SCRIPT
Script: Sogo Ishii
Comic Strip: Run by Katsuhiro Otomo

DIRECTION
Director: Sogo Ishii

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Norimichi Kasamatsu

MUSIC
Music: Hikashu

SOUND
Sound: Narimitsu Hayashi, Morihiro Naito, Akihito Suzuki

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Katsuro Ogami

CAST
Yosuke Nakajima (Hiroshi Kobayashi)
Tatsuya Mori (detective)
Shigeru Muroi (Naomi)
Genjiro Arato (Kimura)
Kumiko Takeda (girl in playground)

PLOT SUMMARY

Hiroshi Kobayashi is fleeing the police (who think that he murdered his girlfriend Naomi) and is searching for yakuza low-life Kimura who hooked Naomi on drugs. His flight becomes increasingly strange and surreal as he gets closer to his target.

KEYWORDS

chases, criminals, drugs, gangsters, revenge, surrealism, yakuza

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009