The Beast to Die
A grim Tokyo crime thriller centered on a detective's pursuit of a methodical, dehumanized killer whose stolen weapon becomes the thread connecting a series of brutal crimes.
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings "walks like a dead man".
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