Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella

1963•1h 27m

CrimeMysteryHistory

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who is later himself killed. His dying words in Umon's arms were, "I didn't kill the guard." The murdered criminal had been a safe-cracker & only his girlfriend knows where he hid a fortune. She is kidnapped, so the plot gets thicker & thicker.

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Toei Company

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Status

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Cast

Ryutaro Otomo

Kondo Umon

Eitarō Shindō

Keishiro Murakami

Toshio Takahara

Talking Denroku

Minoru Chiaki

Kakurai Yosuke

Naoko Kubo

Osen

Isao Kimura

Tomokichi

Hiroko Sakuramachi

Orin

Kensaku Hara

Yagoro

Akira Shioji

Matsuya's guests

Shun'ichi Ike

Michiyo Mori

Shinju Kasuga

Shūjirō Kijima

Harue Akagi

Keiko Kuga

Reiko Otori

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