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.

• Akinori MatsuoDirector
• Koji ChinoScreenplay
• Takashi KanbaraScreenplay
• Masayoshi IkedaOriginal Music Composer

• Akira KobayashiCast
• Naomi HoshiCast
• Ryōhei UchidaCast
• Shoichi OzawaCast
• Shirō ŌsakaCast
• Shōbun InoueCast
• Noriko MatsumotoCast
• Yukô NikiCast
• Nobuo KawakamiCast
• Katsumi ShiinaCast
• Keiko AmajiCast
• Haruna KaburagiCast