Elegant Beast

You rent cheap rooms to bored housewives and run errands in neon nightlife. Your son has lifted cash from the family safe and the walls hum with blackmail. A director’s hand lingers on a close-up of a single cigarette burning itself out.

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Yūzō Kawashima directed Elegant Beast in 1962. See Yūzō Kawashima's full filmography, where to start with Yūzō Kawashima, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yūzō Kawashima.

Elegant Beast was released in 1962 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 96 minutes.