
Vengeance Is Mine(1979)
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.


“How bizarre can a murder be?”
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly conducting his own research, he finds out that Takazawa's husband is the one, responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment, who also have set sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.

Tsutomu Yamazaki
Kikuchi Masaaki

Michiyo Aratama
Asai Setsuko

Kyôko Kishida
Takazawa Mitsue

Keiji Sada
Takazawa Shigeharu

Takashi Shimura
Tsukamoto

Shirō Ōsaka
Matsuno

Akemi Kita
Kikuchi Etsuko

Kei Satō
Eguchi

Tōru Abe
Yuasa Teizo

Rokkō Toura
Shibata Kinichi
Brand of Evil is a crime, drama film released in 1964 exploring themes of based on novel or book. Directed by Hiromichi Horikawa, it stars Tsutomu Yamazaki, Michiyo Aratama, Kyôko Kishida. A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly conducting his own research, he finds out that Takazawa's husband is the one, responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment, who also have set sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.
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