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Nihon no Fixer
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Wikipedia article
is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Yasuo Furuhata. Inspired by Lockheed bribery scandals. Modeling on Kakuei Tanaka and Yoshio Kodama, the film depicts the collusion between Japanese right-wing organizations and the political and business world.3 2009 p.290-292 Nagisa Oshima was due to direct this film. - - Directors Guild of Japan 2014 p.154-160
Plot
Yamaoka is a fixer who made a man the prime minister of Japan, but he is being pursued for violating the Foreign Exchange Law and tax evasion in a fraudulent case involving the sale of aircraft. One day a boy tries to kill Yamaoka, but fails because Imaizumi stops him, and Yamaoka names him Koichi and makes him his subordinate.
Cast
*Shin Saburi as Yamakuni (modeled after Yoshio Kodama)
*Masakazu Tamura as Imaizumi
*Kayo Matsuo as Masako Yamaoka
*Kyoko Enami as Toshiko Yamaoka
*Akira Nakao as Dan
*Seiz Fukumoto as Nakahashi
*Harumi Sone as Yutaka Ikeuchi
*Junkichi Orimoto as Tsunuma
*Ryunosuke Kaneda as Hirayama
*Maki Tachibana as Kayoko Sawai
*Masataka Iwao as Yuji Maejima
*Etsushi Takahashi as Masao Kaga
*Nenji Kobayashi as Shunsuke Mizumaki
*Ichir Nakatani as Yoshino
*Kunie Tanaka as Tatsuo Ryuzaki
*Noboru Nakaya as Suzumura
*Ichir Arishima as Heikichi Shibuya
*Mikio Narita as Yasuzo Morishima
*Chomei Soganoya as Tasuo Osanai(modeled after Kakuei Tanaka)
* Tatsuo Umemiya as Takayoshi Oguri
References
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