# The Crimes That Bind (2018)

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**Original title**: *祈りの幕が下りる時*
**Runtime**: 119 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Katsuo Fukuzawa
**Written by**: Jeong-mi Lee
**Starring**: Hiroshi Abe, Nanako Matsushima, Junpei Mizobata, Rena Tanaka, Fumiyo Kohinata, Tsutomu Yamazaki

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Tokyo apartment winter fog horn 
strangled woman found 
Detective Kaga investigates a cryptic bridge list clue 
A Japanese thriller unfolds in the vein of 90s noir.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, paranoid

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