Ghost of the Pearl Divers
Top 10 Billed Cast
Detective Takashi Ikeda
Teruyo Satomura
Natsue Satomura
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Release Date
1960-07-08
Average
7.4
Rating:
3.7 startsTagline
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Languages:
日本語
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