Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall
2026 · Animation · Action
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Film / 1965
Beast Alley
Directed by
Eizō Sugawa
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
The story
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
Cast
Junko IkeuchiTamiko Narisawa
Keiju KobayashiDetective Hisatsune
Yūnosuke Itō
Eitarō OzawaKôta Kitô
Ryō IkebeShôjirô Kotaki
Susumu Kurobe
Tadao NakamaruDetective Sawa
Yoshio TsuchiyaKatsuragi
Bin Moritsuka
Yoshio Inaba
Michiko Otsuka
Takamaru SasakiDietman Okamura
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Koreya Senda
Noriko Sengoku
Kiyoko Hirai
Kin SugaiOseki
Shin Tatsuoka
Kenzō Tabu
Gen Shimizu
Hirayoshi Aono
Akira Tani
Tōru IbukiYoung man 1
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Shigeki IshidaSakai
Hōsei Komatsu
Sen YanoKoizumi
Someshō Matsumoto
Masahiko ArimaTakamori
Katsumi TezukaFukami
Hideo Shibuya
Kenzo Echigo
Akio Kusama
Seiji IkedaAsanuma
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Kyoko Mori
Midori Chigusa
Yoshiko MiyataKatsuyo Hisatsune
Toriko Takahara(uncredited)
Keiichirō Katsumoto(uncredited)
Yukihiko GondōYoung man 2 (uncredited)
Shin IbukiWorker A (uncredited)
Ichirō ShōjiWorker B (uncredited)
Wataru ŌmaeHotel bartender (uncredited)
Minoru ItōDetective A (uncredited)
Haruo SuzukiDetective B (uncredited)
Kamayuki TsubonoPlainclothes policeman (uncredited)
Yōko YanoKito's maid A (uncredited)
Wakako TanabeKito's maid B (uncredited)
Chie Sugiura(uncredited)
Sadako Amemiya(uncredited)
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