Film

The Black Trademark

1963 · 1h 19m · Drama · Crime

Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.

Ken Utsui

Koji Sugino

Yukiko Fuji

Yukiko Tago

Hideo Takamatsu

Akio Kakiuchi

Kyōko Enami

Junko Hamanaka

Jun Hamamura

Kazunori Tago

Masao Mishima

Ryuichi Terasawa

Yūzō Hayakawa

Machiko Horikawa

Nurse

Yoshio Takee

Section Chief Yamaoka

Nobuo Minamitaka

Shō Natsuki

Ide

Kōichi Itō

Division Chief Nagasawa

Shinji Kawashima

Miyata

Kanichi Tani

Yoshio Takase

Sachiko Meguro

Takase's wife Masuko

Rin Sugimori

Priest

• Tarō YugeDirector
• Kimiyuki HasegawaScreenplay
• Shirō KunimitsuNovel
• Hiroshi IshidaDirector of Photography

Release date

September 7, 1963

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 19m

Genres

Drama, Crime