A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One of the first “lonely hit-man” or “lonely killer” films.
Director: Eizô Sugawa. AKA The Beast Shall Die / 野獣死すべし
Writers: Yoshio Shirasaka (screenplay), Haruhiko Ôyabu (novel).
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Eijirô Tôno, Nobuo Nakamura, Reiko Dan, Yumi Shirakawa.
This looks great
Really good and with an open ending that Hollywood would never allow.