4.2 (19) 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, … Continue reading Yajû shisubeshi (1959) AKA The Beast Shall Die