The Black Trademark

1h 19min

Drama

Crime

Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.

Cast

Ken Utsui

Ken Utsui

Koji Sugino
Yukiko Fuji

Yukiko Fuji

Yukiko Tago
Hideo Takamatsu

Hideo Takamatsu

Akio Kakiuchi
Kyōko Enami

Kyōko Enami

Junko Hamanaka
Jun Hamamura

Jun Hamamura

Kazunori Tago
Masao Mishima

Masao Mishima

Ryuichi Terasawa
Yoshio Takee

Yoshio Takee

Section Chief Yamaoka
Kōichi Itō

Kōichi Itō

Division Chief Nagasawa
Kanichi Tani

Kanichi Tani

Yoshio Takase
Sachiko Meguro

Sachiko Meguro

Takase's wife Masuko
Toshiyuki Ohara

Toshiyuki Ohara

President Fukami

Release date

7th Sep 1963

Status

Released

Spoken languages

日本語