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Eight Hours of Terror is a film of genre Drama directed by Seijun Suzuki with Nobuo Kaneko
Eight Hours of Terror (1957)
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Add to a movie listEight Hours of Terror (８時間の恐怖, Hachijikan no kyōfu) is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a mystery film.
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Quand leur train est piégé par un glissement de terrain, les passagers - dont un meurtrier escorté par des policiers - monte dans un bus pour continuer leur chemin. Pendant ce temps deux braqueurs de banque circulent librement dans les environs. Le danger n'est pas loin pour les passagers du bus...Actors
Nobuo Kaneko
(Kosaku Mori)
Hideaki Nitani
(Ryoji Aoki)
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