The Beast to Die

Kunihiko Date (Yūsaku Matsuda) spent years as a journalist in the middle of other people's wars, Vietnam and the Lebanese Civil War among them, and he reads Nietzsche. Now he is home, and a spree of robbery and murder begins, which pulls Detective Hideyuki Kashiwagi (Hideo Murota) in to work the case through the physical evidence. Tōru Murakawa lets the investigation run slow, and the man at the center of it keeps coming apart.