Brand of Evil (1964)
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.
- Released
- 1964-05-29
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Hiromichi Horikawa, Hiromichi Horikawa, Sakae Hirosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Tsutomu Yamazaki as Kikuchi Masaaki
- Michiyo Aratama as Asai Setsuko
- Kyôko Kishida as Takazawa Mitsue
- Keiji Sada as Takazawa Shigeharu
- Takashi Shimura as Tsukamoto
- Shirō Ōsaka as Matsuno
- Akemi Kita as Kikuchi Etsuko
- Kei Satō as Eguchi
- Tōru Abe as Yuasa Teizo
- Rokkō Toura as Shibata Kinichi
- Asao Uchida as Takazawa's assistant
- Gen Shimizu