Jubaku: Spellbound(1999)

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Miho Wada) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

Genre: Drama

Director: Masato Harada

Actors: Koji Yakusho, Kippei Shîna, Jun Fubuki, Mayumi Wakamura, Ken'ichi Yajima, Ikuji Nakamura, Renji Ishibashi, Ken'ichi Endô, Masako Motai, Hirotarô Honda

Release date: 1999-09-18

Country of origin: Japan

Length: 1h 54m

Ratings:

• 6.6/10