Dead End Run

A collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Sogo Ishii. Each short focuses on the protagonists running away from a threat.

Cast

Tadanobu Asano

as

Yūsuke Iseya

as

Masatoshi Nagase

as

Urara Awata

as

Mikako Ichikawa

as

Robert Harris

as

Jun Kunimura

as

Yoji Tanaka

as

Ken Mitsuishi

as

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