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Brand of Evil

Brand of Evil

How bizarre can a murder be?

1964•2h 13m•7.5/10
CrimeDrama

Ratings

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7.5/10(2)

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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Production

Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd., TOHO

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kikuchi Masaaki

Michiyo Aratama

Michiyo Aratama

Asai Setsuko

Kyôko Kishida

Kyôko Kishida

Takazawa Mitsue

Keiji Sada

Keiji Sada

Takazawa Shigeharu

Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura

Tsukamoto

Shirō Ōsaka

Shirō Ōsaka

Matsuno

Akemi Kita

Akemi Kita

Kikuchi Etsuko

Kei Satō

Kei Satō

Eguchi

Tōru Abe

Tōru Abe

Yuasa Teizo

Rokkō Toura

Rokkō Toura

Shibata Kinichi

Asao Uchida

Asao Uchida

Takazawa's assistant

Gen Shimizu

Gen Shimizu

Tatsuo Endō

Tatsuo Endō

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