Top Billed Cast

Toshirō Mifune
Kingo Gondo
Tatsuya Nakadai
Chief Detective Tokura
Kyōko Kagawa
Reiko Gondo
Tatsuya Mihashi
Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary
Isao Kimura
Detective Arai
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
Takeshi Katō
Detective Nakao
Takashi Shimura
Chief of Investigation Section
Jun Tazaki
Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
Nobuo Nakamura
Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Yūnosuke Itō
Baba - National Shoes Executive
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
Minoru Chiaki
First Reporter
Eijirō Tōno
Factory Worker
Masao Shimizu
Prison Warden
Yutaka Sada
Aoki - the Chauffeur
Masahiko Shimazu
Shinichi Aoki
Toshio Egi
Jun Gondo
Kōji Mitsui
Second Reporter
Kyū Sazanka
First Creditor
Susumu Fujita
Chief of First Investigating Section
Kamatari Fujiwara
Junkyard Cook
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Detective Murata
Kazuo Kitamura
Third Reporter
Gen Shimizu
Chief Physician
Akira Nagoya
Detective Yamamoto
Jun Hamamura
Second Creditor
Masao Oda
First Executor at Tax Office
Kō Nishimura
Third Creditor
Yoshifumi Tajima
Chief Prison Officer
Koji Kiyomura
Fish Market Office Worker
Hiroshi Unayama
Detective Shimada
Yoshisuke Makino
Detective Takahashi
Jun Kondô
Identification Center Worker
Tomo Suzuki
Detective Koike
Senkichi Ōmura
Messenger Passing Note to Intern
Kazuo Kato
Identification Center Worker
Ikio Sawamura
Yokohama Station Trolley Man
Kin Sugai
Female Drug Addict
Keiko Tomita
Murder Victim
Isao Onoda
Male Drug Addict
Seiichi Taguchi
Detective Nakamura
Takeo Matsushita
Second Executor at Tax Office
Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Detective Ueno
Kenji Kodama
Detective Hara
Minoru Itō
Detective
Haruo Suzuki
Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict'
Kōzō Nomura
Detective (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Sep 04 2023

I didn't take to this initially. The scenario reminded me a little of an episode of "Columbo" - a rather sterile, studio-set environment that came across as quite limiting. Once it gets going, though, it's one of the best crime thrillers I've seen in ages. It all centres around the kidnapping of a small boy for whom the anger-prone, shoe millionaire "Gondo" (a strong contribution from Toshirô Mifune) is supposed to pay a ransom of ¥30 million - a colossal sum. It turns out, though, that it's not his son who has been snatched - it's the child of his chauffeur. Why ought he to pay? Will he just g...