Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley (1961)
The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a plot involving yakuza and a shady land developer to evict an old farmer off of his land to build a sky resort. Goro must now help the old farmer and his daughter and take those criminals on.
Director:
Kinji Fukasaku
Writers:
Yoshinari Matsubara, Fumio Kōnami.
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Sonny Chiba as Goro Saionji |
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Harumi Sone as Tetsu |
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Shigemi Kitahara as Misako Kayama |
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Yuko Kobayashi as Chikako Ueda |
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Yayoi Furusato as Fumie |
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Jun Usami as Seitaro Ueda |
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Mitsuo Andō as Gen of Southpow |
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Ichirô Kojima as Fumio Kayama |
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Ken Sudo as |
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Kōji Sekiyama as |
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Gōzō Sōma as |
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Satoshi Tamai as |
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Minoru Sawada as |
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Akira Kuji as Gamechi |
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Hiroshi Date as |
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Toru Hoshi as |
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Kazuo Nakanishi as Child A from Ueda Farm |
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Naoyuki Umezawa as Child B from Ueda Farm |
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Go Kosonoe as Child D of Ueda Farm |
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Yukiko Okada as Child E from Ueda Farm |
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Takashi Kanda as Kito Daisaku |
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Mitsuru Takeuchi as Child C from Ueda Farm |
| Directing | Kinji Fukasaku | Director |
| Writing | Yoshinari Matsubara | Screenplay |
| Writing | Fumio Kōnami | Screenplay |
| Art | Hiroshi Kitagawa | Art Direction |
| Camera | Masahiko Iimura | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Michio Konishi | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Yozo Uchida | Sound Recordist |
| Editing | Hiroshi Suzuki | Editor |
| Lighting | Masashige Harada | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Masayoshi Ikeda | Original Music Composer |