The trap /

"In love for the first time, cases booked solidly for months and a brand new fax machine prodding his office into the nineties, down-on-his-luck private eye Maiku 'Mike' Hama has the world on a string at last. Or does he? In The trap, things are not what they seem. When a hooded stran...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Wana (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors:	Tidepoint Pictures, Fō Raifu Rekōdo (Firm), Eizō Tanteisha (Firm), Assoc. Detective Agencies, Japan (Firm), Kino International Corporation
Other Authors:	Hayashi, Kaizo, 1957-, Saga, Yoshiharu, Koga, Shunsuke, Sakurai, Tsutamu, Tengan, Daisuke, 1959-, Nagase, Masatoshi, 1966-, Natsukawa, Yuri, Yamaguchi, Tomoko, 1964-, Sugimoto, Tetta, Nanbara, Kiyotaka, Maro, Akaji, Sano, Shirō, 1955-, Omine, Mika, Mabuchi, Haruko, Shishido, Jō, 1933-
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese
Language Notes:	In Japanese with optional subtitles in English.
Published:	New York, NY : Kino on Video, [2005]
Edition:	Letterboxed.
Series:	Maiku Hama film trilogy.
Subjects:	Detective and mystery films. Private investigators > Japan > Drama. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Japanese. Feature films.

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Summary:	"In love for the first time, cases booked solidly for months and a brand new fax machine prodding his office into the nineties, down-on-his-luck private eye Maiku 'Mike' Hama has the world on a string at last. Or does he? In The trap, things are not what they seem. When a hooded stranger appears in his office with the cryptic challenge 'I want you to look for me,' Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified ... The trap transforms from a playful pulp detective story into a modern nightmare as corpses of waterfront bar girls pile up and faked evidence fingers Hama as the killer. Stalked by a psychopath, chased by the cops and haunted by his mute girlfriend's mysterious past, every step Hama takes towards solving The trap's gruesome mystery pushes him, and everyone around him, deeper into danger"--Container.
Item Description:	"Recommend [sic] by Japan Detective Association"--Opening credits. Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. First released in Japan. Titles in the series: The most terrible time in my life, The stairway to the distant past, The trap. Special features: The Maiku Hama trilogy : trailers -- Stills gallery -- Cast & crew profiles. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD; region 1.
Audience:	MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Yuichi Nagata ; music by Meyna Co. ; edited by Nobuko Tomita.