Great Jailbreak

7

Japan

Action Crime

91 min

1975

Ken Takakura Keiji Takamiya Kōji Mitsui Hirohisa Nakata Kyōichi Satō Masao Imafuku Tokuko Sugiyama Sayoko Tanimoto Genji Kawai Kiyoshi Yamamoto Hiroshi Tanaka Noboru Mitani Nana Kinomi Bunta Sugawara Eiji Gō Kunie Tanaka Asao Koike Hideo Murota Yoshi Katō Gōzō Sōma Rinichi Yamamoto Kōji Fujiyama

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.