A Turning to Hell (1959)
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.
Director:
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Writers:
Masaru Baba, Nobuo Yamada.
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Ryōji Hayama as Maki |
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Mihoko Inagaki as Akiko |
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Yōko Minamida as Takako |
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Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Matsunaga |
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Hiroshi Kondō as Hachirô |
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Kaku Takashina as Kabu |
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Akira Ōizumi as Nishi |
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Hiroshi Hijikata as Onoda |
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Fumio Ōmachi as Takeuchi |
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Tatsuo Matsushita as Miyaoka |
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Zenji Yamada as Suzuki |
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Nobuo Kawakami as |
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Zenpei Saga as Yoshimitsu |
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Mieko Hirooka as Michie Yokota |
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Fudeko Tanaka as Michie's mother Toyo |
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Hiroshi Kōno as Otaguro |
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Shirō Yanase as Nabe |
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Kenzô Kawabe as Killer |
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Shusui Tsuda as |
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Yukihiko Sugi as Student |
| Directing | Koreyoshi Kurahara | Director |
| Writing | Shinji Fujiwara | Original Story |
| Directing | Takashi Nomura | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Yoshio Mamiya | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Masahiro Takashima | Lighting Technician |
| Writing | Masaru Baba | Screenplay |
| Art | Kazuhiko Chiba | Art Direction |
| Directing | Kigen Kinoshita | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Akira Suzuki | Editor |
| Writing | Nobuo Yamada | Screenplay |
| Sound | Riichirō Manabe | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Norio Numakura | Sound Recordist |