Let Him Rest in Peace (1985) on Netflix
After the American forces leave Okinawa, local thugs press down on the town. A doctor comes to help an old friend, while one holdout stands against a hoodlum buying up everything.
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Plot summary
With the American forces gone from Okinawa, local thugs and hoodlums fill the space they left and press down on the town and everyone around it. A doctor has come to help an old friend. A local hoodlum has been buying up everything in sight, and the one property he cannot get is held by a single stubborn owner; the thugs mean to take care of that. A man has also come back to his seaside roots to face a yakuza boss. He wins over younger men, gets through to a hard woman, and lands a few blows.
Cast
- Makoto Mutsuuraas Ryuta Sakaguchi
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Let Him Rest in Peace (1985)
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- After the film became a story about a man opposing development in Henoko, producer Haruki Kadokawa warned director Sai not to have a red flag waved in the film, fearing that Sai might include one.
- The film moved the novel's setting from a San'in hot spring town to Okinawa because director Sai preferred Okinawa; producer Mitsuru Kurosawa objected that there was no reason to shoot the novel there, but producer Haruki Kadokawa approved the change.
