Dog Race (犬、走る) 25 years old

Dog Race

Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't play by the rules. He busts a drug ring, but not before sampling a few of the wares, and he closes down an underaged prostitution ring after enjoying the company of a school girl hooker. One of duties is to shake down sniveling Korean gangster Hideyoshi (Ren Osugi) for information. In spite of their positions on opposite sides of the law, the two discover that they share a fair amount in common. A disregard for the law and the love of a comely prostitute from China named Momo-chan (Makoto Togashi). Though Hideyoshi is running an illegal alien smuggling ring with her and has lusted for her from a far for quite a while, Nakayama manages to bed her first. When she does finally appear in Hideyoshi's bed, she's unfortunately a corpse.

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Dog Race Cast

Name Character
Teruyuki Kagawa He was 32, now 58 years old as Sakuma
Ken'ichi Endô He was 37, now 62 years old as Gonda
Gorô Kishitani as Nakayama
Ren Osugi He was 46, 66 years old when he died as Hideyoshi (as Ren Ôsugi)

Dog Race Crew

Name Department
Shoichi Maruyama as Writer. He was 50 (now 76) years old Writing
Yoichi Sai as Director. He was 49 (now 74) years old Directing
Yoichi Sai as Writer. He was 49 (now 74) years old Writing
Wishing Chong as Writer. He was 41 (now 67) years old Writing
Dog Race poster
Dog Race (25 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, September 26, 1998
  • Runtime: 110 minutes