Film

A Spectacular Murder

1951 · 1h 20m · Mystery · Crime

When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all were fake. That same night, a dancer in the troupe went missing and a police officer was shot with the same caliber gun. Kawano suspects they are all related to a gun smuggling case.

Jun Usami

Sumiko Hidaka

Kenji Sugawara

Chizuru Kitagawa

Toshiaki Konoe

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Daisuke Katō

Yoshiko Fujishiro

Yukio Horikita

Sumao Ishihara

Osamu Abe

Kanji Koshiba

Hiroshi Ueda

Teruko Ōmi

Ken Mitsuda

羽白修

• Bin KatōDirector
• Hajime TakaiwaScreenplay
• Kazuo MiyagawaDirector of Photography
• Hisato OsawaOriginal Music Composer

Release date

January 20, 1951

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Mystery, Crime