

Brand of Evil
1964-05-29 · 133 min · ★ 7.7
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.
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- Directors
- Hiromichi Horikawa
- Production companies
- Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd., TOHO
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Tsutomu YamazakiKikuchi Masaaki
Michiyo AratamaAsai Setsuko
Kyôko KishidaTakazawa Mitsue
Keiji SadaTakazawa Shigeharu
Takashi ShimuraTsukamoto
Shirō ŌsakaMatsuno
Akemi KitaKikuchi Etsuko
Kei SatōEguchi
Tōru AbeYuasa Teizo
Rokkō TouraShibata Kinichi
Asao UchidaTakazawa's assistant
Gen Shimizu
Tatsuo Endō
Keiko Tomita
Ikio Sawamura
Yutaka Sada
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