Iron Maze (1991)

Directed by

Hiroaki Yoshida

Genre

drama film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film

Country

United States, Japan

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

R

Rating

4.4 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Japanese businessman is found brutally beaten in an abandoned steel mill in a decaying Pennsylvania town. The story of what happened is told from the conflicting perspectives of several people involved including the businessman's wife and a local man.

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What happens

Iron Maze is a 1991 Japanese and American film directed by Hiroaki Yoshida and executive produced by Oliver Stone, starring Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, Hiroaki Murakami, and J.T. Walsh. Based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's story In a Grove (the same short story that was used for Kurosawa's Rashomon), this contemporary re-telling shifts the action to a Pennsylvania 'Rust Belt' town. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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