“Buddy” and Analogue Horror
Upon first watch, Buddy feels like it should have been aired on Adult Swim at four in the morning.
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A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...
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A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...
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Genre:Action, Thriller
Written By:Yuichi Shinpo, Kenzaburô Iida, Yasuo Hasegawa, Yasushi Fukuda
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Runtime:129 minutes
Studio:Nippon Herald Films, TOHO, Fuji Television Network, JVC, dentsu, Destiny, INP
Cast
Setsuro Wakamatsu
Director
Yuji Oda
Teruo Togashi
Nanako Matsushima
Chiaki Hirakawa
Koichi Sato
Masahiko Utsuki
Ken Ishiguro
Kazushi Yoshioka
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Yoshito Kasahara
Katsuo Nakamura
Kaoru Okuda
Mitsuru Hirata
Yoshimitsu Iwazaki
Saishin Kudo
Shingo Tozuka
Masato Furuoya
Kensuke Fujimaki
Manabu Hamada
Hirokazu Hayashi
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