The Castle of Sand

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Crime Mystery Drama

Tetsuro Tamba

(Detective Eitaro Imanishi)

Gō Katō

Kensaku Morita

(Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura)

Yōko Shimada

Karin Yamaguchi

(Sachiko Tadakoro)

Shin Saburi

(Ex-Finance Minister, Shigeki Tadokoro)

Yoshi Katō

(Chiyokichi Motoura)

Kazuhide Haruta

(Hideo Motoura)

Ken Ogata

Seiji Matsuyama

(Shokichi Miki)

Taketoshi Naitō

(Search Section Chief)

Chishū Ryū

(Kojuro Kirihara)

Masumi Harukawa

Yoshio Inaba

(Search Chief Clerk)

Tokue Hanazawa

(Miki's Colleague in Flashback)

Kinzō Shin

(Linguistics Professor Kuwabara)

Kappei Matsumoto

(Mimori Police Chief)

Jun Hamamura

Takanobu Hozumi

Hatsuo Yamaya

(Iwagi Police Chief)

Kin Sugai

Akiko Nomura

(Old Woman at Wakaba Apartment)

Kazuko Imai

(Kenichi Miki's Wife)

Mitsuyo Inomata

(Waitress at Bar Ron)

Yokichi Gotou

Akira Sera

(Fan Shop Owner)

Akira Kubo

(Patrolman at Setagaya)

Keiji Tsuchida

(West Kamata Chief Detective)

Kibaji Tankobo

(West Kamata Detective)

Mitsuru Yamazaki

(West Kamata Detective)

Kentarô Imai

Kôei Yamamoto

Hideaki Komori

(Metropolitan Police HQ Detective)

Ryōko Mizuki

Kiyoshi Atsumi

(Movie Theater Manager)

Taiji Tonoyama

(Publican at Ebisu)

Asaya Fujita

(Forensic Technician)

Tatsuo Sakurabe

(Surgeon at Setagaya)

Ken'ichi Katô

(Policeman driving jeep at Mimori Station)

Hisashi Imabashi

(Asahi Shop Owner)

Sanpeita Mori

(Detective at Iwagi Station)

Junko Yoshida

(Clerk at Naniwa Yakusho)

Mitsuzô Nakamura

(Policeman at Ebisu)

Akira Matsuda

(Clerk in Charge at Naniwa Yakusho)

Tatsuki Bessho

(Bartender at Bar Ron)

Yuri Takase

(Waitress at Bar Ron)

Teishiro Nishijima

(West Kamata Police Chief)

Kyôsuke Matsunami

Shin Kitayama

(West Kamata Detective)

Ura Shintarô

(West Kamata Detective)

Takuo Senga

(West Kamata Detective)

Kunji Harada

Yuji Osugi

Shintaro Mishima

Yuichi Kikuchi

(Waga's Friend)

Tatsuo Ito

Yukihide Yamamoto

(Metropolitan Police HQ Detective)

Noriyuki Watanabe

(West Kamata Detective)

Kentarô Imai

(Metropolitan Police HQ Detective)

Hideto Nakagawa

Shuichi Oki

Nobuo Takagi

Jun Kajima

Taeko Sakata

Kiyo Murakami

Yumiko Higashitani

Ryōko Mizuki

(Farmer at Kamedake)

Yoshiko Togawa

(Staff in Charge at Jikoen Nursing Home)

Takashi Tabata

Eiko Muramatsu

(Mama at Ginza Club (uncredited))