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Never Give Up (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 143 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Junya Satō
- Starring
- Tanie Kitabayashi, Moeko Ezawa, Ken Takakura, Nobuo Kaneko, Richard Anderson, Takahiro Tamura
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to raise his newly adopted daughter Yoriko, the sole survivor of a bloodbath he caused. Years later, now working as a claims adjuster, he returns to the tragedy’s scene, is arrested on suspicion, yet jail time is the least of his worries as his former organization comes after him.
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