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Badge of the Night
Badge of the Night

Badge of the Night

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DramaCrime

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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.

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

101 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

31 March 1963

Country

Japan

Cast

Akira Kobayashi

Akira Kobayashi

Naomi Hoshi

Naomi Hoshi

Ryōhei Uchida

Ryōhei Uchida

Shoichi Ozawa

Shoichi Ozawa

Shirō Ōsaka

Shirō Ōsaka

Shōbun Inoue

Shōbun Inoue

Noriko Matsumoto

Noriko Matsumoto

Yukô Niki

Yukô Niki

Nobuo Kawakami

Nobuo Kawakami

Katsumi Shiina

Katsumi Shiina

Keiko Amaji

Keiko Amaji

Haruna Kaburagi

Haruna Kaburagi

Ichiro Kijima

Ichiro Kijima

Kōtarō Sugie

Kōtarō Sugie

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