Dogfight: Stray Dogs' Elegy

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Dogfight: Stray Dogs' Elegy

2000

1h 25m

6.0(1 votes)

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Crime

Overview

A cocaine deal is about to go down between yakuza and Hong Kong triad gangsters and a small time porn peddler is used as a mole by a dirty cop.

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7 featured cast members

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Show Aikawa

Mikio Osawa

Hiromi Nakajima

Yoshimi Asada

Shun Sugata

Hitoshi Ozawa

Shingo Tsurumi

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Directed by: Atsushi Muroga
Written by: Atsushi Muroga
Produced by: Mitsuru Kurosawa
Makoto Okada

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