The Hard Core Criminal In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the prisoners and the warden to escalate. Details Casts Posters Title The Hard Core Criminal Release Date 1973-05-12 Runtime 01 Hours 30 Minutes Genres Crime Thriller Production Companies Toei Company Production Countries Japan Koji Tsuruta... ... Gorō Ibuki... ... Minoru Ōki... ... Yuriko Hishimi... ... Yoko Horikoshi... ... Toshiaki Minami... ... Eizô Kitamura... ... Rinichi Yamamoto... ... Akira Shioji... ... Shinichirō Mikami... ... Kazutarō Kuni... ... Takashi Noguchi... ... Minken Karasawa... ... Masataka Wakao... ... Bin Amatsu... ... Tatsuo Endō... ... Nobuo Kaneko... ... Jō Shishido... ... Shiro Kuno... ... Original Size (900x1320)