Brand of Evil (1964)
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly conducting his own research, he finds out that Takazawa's husband is the one, responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment, who also have set sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.
Director:
Hiromichi Horikawa
Writers:
Hiromichi Horikawa, Sakae Hirosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto.
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Tsutomu Yamazaki as Kikuchi Masaaki |
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Michiyo Aratama as Asai Setsuko |
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Kyôko Kishida as Takazawa Mitsue |
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Keiji Sada as Takazawa Shigeharu |
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Takashi Shimura as Tsukamoto |
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Shirō Ōsaka as Matsuno |
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Akemi Kita as Kikuchi Etsuko |
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Kei Satō as Eguchi |
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Tōru Abe as Yuasa Teizo |
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Rokkō Toura as Shibata Kinichi |
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Asao Uchida as Takazawa's assistant |
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Gen Shimizu as |
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Tatsuo Endō as |
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Masae Yoshikawa as |
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Koji Kiyomura as |
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Keiko Tomita as |
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Akira Tani as |
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Ikio Sawamura as |
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Yutaka Sada as |
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Asao Uchida as |
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Yoshitaka Kusunoki as |
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Shōichi Hirose as |
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Kozo Yamamura as |
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Tatsuo Endou as |
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Kiyoshi Yanagawa as |
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Toshihiko Furuta as |
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Yasuhiko Shima as |
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Seiji Ikeda as |
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Shigeo Katō as |
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Shigemi Matsui as |
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Kyosuke Segawa as |
| Directing | Hiromichi Horikawa | Director |
| Writing | Hiromichi Horikawa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Novel |
| Writing | Sakae Hirosawa | Screenplay |
| Sound | Toshirō Mayuzumi | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay |
| Camera | Yuzuru Aizawa | Director of Photography |
| Art | Takashi Matsuyama | Art Direction |
| Sound | Kôichi Nakagawa | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Chōshirō Ishii | Lighting Manager |
| Editing | Yoshitami Kuroiwa | Editor |