Film

Brand of Evil

1964 · 2h 13m · Crime · Drama

How bizarre can a murder be?

IMDb

6.7

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.

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kikuchi Masaaki

Michiyo Aratama

Asai Setsuko

Kyôko Kishida

Takazawa Mitsue

Keiji Sada

Takazawa Shigeharu

Takashi Shimura

Tsukamoto

Shirō Ōsaka

Matsuno

Akemi Kita

Kikuchi Etsuko

Kei Satō

Eguchi

Tōru Abe

Yuasa Teizo

Rokkō Toura

Shibata Kinichi

Asao Uchida

Takazawa's assistant

Gen Shimizu

Tatsuo Endō

• Hiromichi HorikawaDirector · Screenplay
• Sakae HirosawaScreenplay
• Shinobu HashimotoNovel
• Toshirō MayuzumiOriginal Music Composer

Release date

May 29, 1964

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 13m

Genres

Crime, Drama

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