Summary
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
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Cast
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Masatoshi NagaseMaiku Hama
Haruko WanibuchiLily Hama
Eiji OkadaWhite Man
Sumiko SakamotoMinato Mary
Joe ShishidoJo Shishido
Kiyotaka NanbaraHoshino
Shiro SanoMasaru Kanno
Akaji MaroLt. Nakayama
Shinya TsukamotoYamaguchi
Tetta SugimotoSugimoto
Keiji MatsudaMatsuda
Kazuko ShirakawaSachiko Shibata
Noriko SengokuAsa
Yōichi SaiChief of Police
Crew
- Directed by
- Kaizo Hayashi
- Written by
- Kaizo Hayashi, Daisuke Tengan
- Produced by
- Kaizo Hayashi, Kazutoshi Wadakura
- Music by
- Yôko Kumagai, Hidehiko Urayama
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Facts
March 18, 1995 · 1 h 45 min · Drama, Crime
- Released
- March 18, 1995
- Runtime
- 1 h 45 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Original language
- Japanese
- Made in
- Japan
- Available in
- 5 countries
Q&A
4 questions, like "Where can I stream The Stairway to the Distant Past?"
Questions about The Stairway to the Distant Past
Quick answers from GoodWatch data.
Is The Stairway to the Distant Past worth watching?
Mostly, it's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 70 (IMDb 6.8).
Is The Stairway to the Distant Past a sequel?
- The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994)
- The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)
- The Trap (1996)
Yes: it's movie 2 of 3 in its series, after The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994) and before The Trap (1996).
Is The Stairway to the Distant Past in English?
No, it was made in Japanese.


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