Jubaku: Spellbound
Released: September 18, 1999Runtime: 114 minLanguage: JA
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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Koji Yakusho
as Hiroshi Kitano
Kippei Shina
as Akio Katayama
Jun Fubuki
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Mayumi Wakamura
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Ken Ichi Yajima
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Ikuji Nakamura
as Hideki Matsubara
Renji Ishibashi
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Ken Ichi Endo
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Masako Motai
as Lawyer Ichijo
Hirotaro Honda
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