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1963-03-01A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

Kingo Gondo
Toshirō Mifune

Chief Detective Tokura
Tatsuya Nakadai

Reiko Gondo
Kyōko Kagawa

Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary
Tatsuya Mihashi

Detective Arai
Isao Kimura

Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi
Kenjirō Ishiyama

Detective Nakao
Takeshi Katō

Chief of Investigation Section
Takashi Shimura

Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
Jun Tazaki

Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
Nobuo Nakamura

Baba - National Shoes Executive
Yūnosuke Itō

Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern
Tsutomu Yamazaki

First Reporter
Minoru Chiaki

Factory Worker
Eijirō Tōno

Prison Warden
Masao Shimizu

Aoki - the Chauffeur
Yutaka Sada

Shinichi Aoki
Masahiko Shimazu
Jun Gondo
Toshio Egi

Second Reporter
Kōji Mitsui

First Creditor
Kyū Sazanka

Chief of First Investigating Section
Susumu Fujita

Junkyard Cook
Kamatari Fujiwara

Detective Murata
Yoshio Tsuchiya

Third Reporter
Kazuo Kitamura

Chief Physician
Gen Shimizu

Detective Yamamoto
Akira Nagoya

Second Creditor
Jun Hamamura

First Executor at Tax Office
Masao Oda

Third Creditor
Kō Nishimura

Chief Prison Officer
Yoshibumi Tajima
Fish Market Office Worker
Koji Kiyomura
Detective Shimada
Hiroshi Unayama
Detective Takahashi
Yoshisuke Makino
Identification Center Worker
Jun Kondô

Detective Koike
Tomo Suzuki

Messenger Passing Note to Intern
Senkichi Ōmura

Identification Center Worker
Kazuo Katō

Yokohama Station Trolley Man
Ikio Sawamura

Female Drug Addict
Kin Sugai

Murder Victim
Keiko Tomita
Male Drug Addict
Isao Onoda
Detective Nakamura
Seiichi Taguchi
Second Executor at Tax Office
Takeo Matsushita

Detective Ueno
Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Detective Hara
Kenji Kodama
Detective
Minoru Itō

Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict'
Haruo Suzuki

Detective (uncredited)
Kōzō Nomura