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.
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Yūjirō Ishihara
Toshio Ishimatsu
Known for
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Mie Kitahara
Miki Kojima
Known for
Crazed Fruit
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Izumi Ashikawa
Reiko Togawa
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Keiichirō Akagi
Kenji Togawa
Also in
Age of Nudity
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Nobuo Kaneko
Funakoshi
Known for
Ikiru
Shōgun
Kō Nishimura
Ryu Konei
Known for
Yojimbo
Intentions of Murder
Masao Shimizu
Known for
Godzilla Raids Again
Sanjuro
Hiroshi Kondō
Known for
Anatahan
Intentions of Murder
Taketoshi Naitō
Known for
The Burmese Harp
The Return of Godzilla
Yuzo Kiura
Known for
Tokyo Drifter
Youth of the Beast
Unpei Yokoyama
Also in
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Sadakichi Shimizu, the Armed Robber
Nobuo Kawakami
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Akinori Matsuo Director · Nobuo Yamada Screenplay Masanori Tsujii Editor
First release September 27, 1959 · Produced in Japan · Original title 清水の暴れん坊
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Nikkatsu Corporation
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Japan
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Original title
清水の暴れん坊
Original language
Japanese
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Japanese
Release dates
Japan · September 27, 1959
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No release date listed for United States.
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