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"I get 50,000 Yen a day, plus expenses," growls tough-talking detective Maiku "Mike" Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) in The Stairway to the Distant Past, the second part of director Kaizo Hayashi's stylish modern-day Japanese film noir trilogy. Picking up where The Most Terrible Time in My Life left off, Stairway delivers a knockout combination of widescreen color visuals and savvy pulp storytelling more luridly violent, outrageously ironic and sincerely affecting than its predecessor.
Original Release
03/18/1995
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Masatoshi Nagase | Mike Hama / Maiku Hama |
| Kiyotaka Nanbara | Hoshino |
| Haruko Wanibuchi | Lily Hama |
| Shirô Sano | Masaru / Masaru Kanno |
| Eiji Okada | White man |
| Tetta Sugimoto | Sugimoto |
| Mika Ohmine | Akane Hama |
| Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Yamaguchi |
| Jô Shishido | Shishido / Jo Shishido |
| Keiji Matsuda | Matsuda |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Masatoshi Nagase | Mike Hama / Maiku Hama |
| Kiyotaka Nanbara | Hoshino |
| Haruko Wanibuchi | Lily Hama |
| Shirô Sano | Masaru / Masaru Kanno |
| Eiji Okada | White man |
| Tetta Sugimoto | Sugimoto |
| Mika Ohmine | Akane Hama |
| Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Yamaguchi |
| Jô Shishido | Shishido / Jo Shishido |
| Keiji Matsuda | Matsuda |
| Akaji Maro | Detective / Lt. Nakayama |
| Kazuko Shirakawa | Sachiko Shibata |
| Sumiko Sakamoto | Minato no Mary / Minato Mary |
| Noriko Sengoku | Asa |
| Yoichi Sai | Chief of Police |
| Shûji Yamamoto | Bum |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Yutaka Gotô | Executive Producer |
| Kazutoshi Wadakura | Executive Producer |
| Shunsuke Koga | Producer |
| Kaizo Hayashi | Producer |
| Kazutoshi Wadakura | Producer |
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