Film

The Wild Reporter

1959 · 1h 26m · Action · Drama

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.

Yūjirō Ishihara

Toshio Ishimatsu

Mie Kitahara

Miki Kojima

Izumi Ashikawa

Reiko Togawa

Keiichirō Akagi

Kenji Togawa

Nobuo Kaneko

Funakoshi

Kō Nishimura

Ryu Konei

Masao Shimizu

Hiroshi Kondō

Taketoshi Naitō

Yuzo Kiura

Unpei Yokoyama

Nobuo Kawakami

Shōki Fukae

Keisuke Noro

Jun Miyazaki

Jun Hamamura

• Akinori MatsuoDirector · Screenplay
• Nobuo YamadaScreenplay
• Masanori TsujiiEditor

Release date

September 27, 1959

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Action, Drama