Playtime Never Ends
7.2
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
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Cast
22 people
Masahiro Motoki
Hirata
Known for
Departures
Giri/Haji
Renji Ishibashi
Top of Police Branch
Known for
Audition
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Hiroshi Saitô
Sadaaki Haginiwa
Shitoku Sakamoto
Tadashi Nishikawa
Also in
Mampuku
Ochoyan
Kunihiko Toi
Yasutaka Tarumi
Mami Ito
Also in
Pachinko Graffiti
Daikanyama Wonderland Horror
Masahiko Yoshida
Nagare Hagiwara
Local TV Producer
Known for
Rebirth of Mothra
Yoshihiro Yūki
Sadaaki Haginiwa Director · Hiroshi Saito Screenplay Kunihiko Toi Author
First release October 5, 1991 · Produced in Japan · Production Suntory, Nippon Television Network Corporation
Production
Nikkatsu Visual Link Co., Ltd.
Production
Suntory
Production
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Production
Japan
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Original title
遊びの時間は終らない
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · October 5, 1991
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No release date listed for United States.
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