Unlucky Monkey

This film sets out to make a mess of a bank heist. Yamazaki botches a robbery and ends up with 80 million yen. Things only get more complicated from there.

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SABU directed Unlucky Monkey in 1998. See SABU's full filmography, where to start with SABU, or where to go after you've seen everything by SABU.

Unlucky Monkey was released in 1998 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 106 minutes.