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Playtime Never Ends

Playtime Never Ends

1991 1h 51mComedyCrime

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.

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Synopsis

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.

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Sadaaki HaginiwaSadaaki HaginiwaDirectorHiroshi SaitoScreenplayKan TakagiKan TakagiComposerHiroshi TakaseCinematography

Cast

Masahiro MotokiMasahiro MotokiHirataRenji IshibashiRenji IshibashiTop of Police BranchTadashi NishikawaTadashi NishikawaMami ItoNagare HagiwaraNagare HagiwaraLocal TV ProducerHaruhiko SaitoHaruhiko SaitoOld DetectiveMakoto AkatsukaMakoto AkatsukaDaijirō HaradaDaijirō HaradaKazuyuki MatsuzawaKazuyuki MatsuzawaMasayuki ImaiMasayuki ImaiMaiko OgoMaiko OgoKōjirō KusanagiKōjirō KusanagiMichiko AmekuMichiko AmekuNobuo TsukamotoNobuo TsukamotoMasuyo IwamotoMasuyo Iwamoto

Director

Sadaaki Haginiwa

Writer

Hiroshi Saito

Release date

5 Oct 1991

Runtime

1h 51m

Studio

Nikkatsu Visual Link Co., Ltd., Suntory, Nippon Television Network Corporation

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

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