Badge of the Night

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.

Cast

Akira Kobayashi

Naomi Hoshi

Ryōhei Uchida

Shoichi Ozawa

Shirō Ōsaka

Shōbun Inoue

Noriko Matsumoto

Yukô Niki

Nobuo Kawakami

Katsumi Shiina

Crew

Akinori Matsuo

Director

Koji Chino

Assistant Director

Hiroshi Chinô

Screenplay

Takashi Kanbara

Screenplay

Masayoshi Ikeda

Original Music Composer

Kazumi Iwasa

Director of Photography