Name: The Last Shot in the Bar
Genre: Crime & Mystery, Drama
Released: 2017-12-01
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Matsuda Ryuhei, Oizumi Yo, Keiko Kitagawa, Maeda Atsuko, Suzuki Sawa

Matsuda Ryuhei is a Japanese actor who was born on May 9, 1983, in Tokyo, Japan, to a family of actors. Aged just 15, he was cast as a samurai in the 1999 hit movie “Taboo,” a role for which he won a number of domestic acting awards. He followed up with the film “Shibito no Koiwazurai” (2001), and has since gone on to star in dozens of hit movies, including “The Raid 2” (2014), “Before We Vanish” (2017), and “Beneath the Shadow” in 2020.

Matsuda Ryuhei

Oizumi Yo is a Japanese actor and TV star who was born on April 3, 1973, in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. He studied at Hokkai Gakuen University. He began acting and appearing on TV in 1996, when he starred in the movie “Gamera 2: Attack of Legion” and began appearing on the long-running variety show title How Do You Like Wednesday?”– which aired until 2002. He has also appeared in a number of thriller movie releases, including the hit “The Last Shot in the Bar” in 2017. His drama series title credits include a 2019 adaptation of the hit manga series “Stay Tuned!”

Oizumi Yo

Keiko Kitagawa is a popular Japanese actress. Born on August 22, 1986, she began her career as a model, working as the exclusive model for the Japanese Seventeen magazine from 2003 to 2006. She made her acting debut in the 2003-2004 television series “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.” She has since enjoyed a prolific career in both films and television series, including the recent “Your Home Is My Business!” (2016) and “Your Home Is My Business! Returns” (2017). Keiko Kitagawa married Daigo Naitō, the Japanese singer-songwriter and actor, in 2016.

Keiko Kitagawa

Maeda Atsuko is a Japanese actress and singer who was born on July 10, 1991, in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan. She joined the all-female J-pop group AKB48 at age 14 and debuted with the act’s first group – Team A – in December 2005. She went on to graduate from AKB48 in August 2012 and also released a number of solo hit singles. She made her movie bow in the 2007 film “How to Become Myself” and has since starred in a range of hit movies, including “The Complex” in 2013, “Before We Vanish” and “The Last Shot in the Bar” (both 2017) and the more recent “Remain in Twilight” (2021).

Maeda Atsuko

Sawa Suzuki is a Japanese actress who was born on September 20, 1972, in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. She made her acting debut in the 1992 film “Hadashi no Picnic” and followed up with a role in the hit 1994 movie “Ai no Shinsekai.” She went on to appear in her first drama series titles in 1996. Her numerous movie credits include 2010’s “Hotel Chelsea” and the 2015 horror film “Z Island.”

Suzuki Sawa

Lily Franky, also known as Elvis Woodstock, is a Japanese writer, illustrator, writer, and actor who was born on November 4, 1963, in Fukuoka, Japan. He began acting in 2001, starring in the lead role of the fantasy murder-mystery movie “Blind Beast vs. Dwarf.” He has since gone on to star in scores of hit films, such as the thriller sequel “The Last Shot in the Bar” (2017) and the more recent “Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction” (2021).

Lily Franky

Tamae Ando is a Japanese actress. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, on August 8, 1976, and made her acting debut in 2003. Since then, she has appeared in a number of films and television dramas, including “Piece of Cake” (2015).

Tamae Ando

Taguchi Tomorowo is a Japanese actor, film director, illustrator, and musician who was born in Tokyo, Japan, on November 30, 1957. He began his creative career in the mid-1970s and made his acting debut in the movie “Zokubutsu Zukan” in 1978. In 1989, he starred in the international horror-thriller hit movie “Tetsuo: The Iron Man,” and the film’s successful 1992 sequel “Tetsuo II: Body Hammer.” He has since gone on to star in numerous film releases, such as 1995’s “Tokyo Fist,” “Taboo” in 1999, and more recent titles such as “Fancy” (2020) and “The Door into Summer” (2021).

Taguchi Tomorowo

Toru Nomaguchi is a Japanese actor who was born on October 11, 1973, in Fukuoka, Japan. He studied at Shinshu University. He began acting part-time in the late 1990s, but continued to work other jobs until he turned 30. In the mid-2000s, he got his breakthrough in films such as “The Suspect” (2005) and the dramas “Time Limit Investigator” and “The Lawyer” (both 2006). He has since become a mainstay of television and the silver screen. More recently, he has appeared in the 2020 films “Your Eyes Tell” and “Silent Tokyo.”

Toru Nomaguchi

Kou Maehara is a Japanese actor who was born on November 20, 1992, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He made his acting debut in the drama series “Miracle Classroom” in 2014. He went on to appear in a number of movies in the mid-2010s, including “Someone's Xylophone” (2016), “Somebody”&nbsp;(2016), and “Tori Girl” (2017). More recently, he has appeared in the films “Demolition Girl” (2019) and “Signal 100”&nbsp;(2020), as well as the drama series “Your Turn to Kill” (2019).

Kou Maehara

Takada (Matsuda Ryuhei) is the perpetually tired but loyal driver and karate-proficient companion of an unnamed hard-boiled private detective (played by Oizumi Yo) – a university dropout who has a reputation for taking up cases the police won’t touch.

One day, Takada receives a request to find a missing woman, and he and the detective agree to take the case. Their investigation leads them to a mysterious, seedy business owned by Mari Misaki (Keiko Kitagawa) – and with dark, underworld connections.

Mari Misaki and the detective have crossed paths before, but she has now become the lover of a gangland chief named Jinya Kitashiro (Lily Franky), ostensibly a local business leader. She appears to retain feelings for the detective, but is all as it seems?

Soon, gangland thugs are on the detective and Takada’s trail – while the crime-busting duo tries to get to bottom of the ever-more-unorthodox missing persons case.

This film is the third and final movie based on the “Susukino Detective” series of books by the novelist Naomi Azuma, and was the second sequel to “Phone Call to the Bar.”

“The Last Shot in the Bar” is a 2011 Japanese crime movie that was directed by Teruyuki Yoshida.

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