The Stairway to the Distant Past

Year: 1995

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Kaizo Hayashi

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Broke after his vintage Nash convertible is repossessed, private eye Mike Hama patrols the gritty Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. When Lily, a striking former stripper from his past, returns to town, a dormant criminal powder keg ignites, threatening to explode the entire Yokohama underworld.

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