The Hand - DVD

Past war atrocities return to haunt three veterans, inspiring scandal, bloodshed and murder. Scotland Yard is baffled by a series of murders where the victims are found with their hands amputated. When one of the suspects is said to be missing a hand as well, the detectives begin to uncover the sordid history of the mutilated participants. As soldiers in Burma, the three men were captured and tortured until one gave in to their captor's

A man and his wife, encounter a grotesque looking hand sticking out from the toilet in their bathroom. The protruding hand is very still, like a severed limb hanging low. Although they call security, and soon the cops, no one can identify, let alone predict where or what this thing is. Suddenly, all find themselves struggling for their lives as they try to fight against it.

A mixed-race American (Joe Yamanaka) found fatally stabbed in an elevator. The son (Koichi Iwaki) of a noted fashion designer (Mariko Okada) fleeing to the States after a deadly hit-and-run. World-weary cop Munesue (Yusaku Matsuda) suspects a link between the incidents-and as he goes to New York and finds a tenuous alliance with local plainclothesman Shuftan (George Kennedy), he may be proved right. Hit suspenser co-stars Toshiro Mifune, Broderick Crawford. 132 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack Japanese; Subtitles English; audio commentary; featurettes; image gallery; theatrical trailers. In Japanese with English subtitles.