Badge of the Night (1963)
A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.
Director:
Akinori Matsuo
Writers:
Koji Chino, Takashi Kanbara.
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Akira Kobayashi as |
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Naomi Hoshi as |
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Ryōhei Uchida as |
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Shoichi Ozawa as |
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Shirō Ōsaka as |
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Shōbun Inoue as |
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Noriko Matsumoto as |
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Yukô Niki as |
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Nobuo Kawakami as |
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Katsumi Shiina as |
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Keiko Amaji as |
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Haruna Kaburagi as |
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Ichiro Kijima as |
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Kōtarō Sugie as |
| Directing | Akinori Matsuo | Director |
| Writing | Koji Chino | Screenplay |
| Writing | Takashi Kanbara | Screenplay |
| Directing | Koji Chino | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Masayoshi Ikeda | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Kazumi Iwasa | Director of Photography |
