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The Decoy

19571h 26mMovieThriller

Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (Ikebe) whom he blames for the suicide of his pregnant mistress.

DirectorHideo Suzuki
WriterTakeo Murata
ProducerTomoyuki Tanaka

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Cast · Directed by Hideo Suzuki

RIRyō Ikebe
Ryō Ikebe
Detective Hoshino
MKMitsuko Kusabue
Mitsuko Kusabue
Setsuko (Hoshino’s wife)
KI
Keiko Ieda
Toshiko Horiuchi
SFSusumu Fujita
Susumu Fujita
Saitō (Chief Inspector)
MKMomoko Kôchi
Momoko Kôchi
Ikuko Koide (Prosecutor’s daughter)
MSMakoto Satō
Makoto Satō
Ryōsuke Yamashita (Escaped convict)
KO
Kurôemon Onoe
Senji Tabata (Escaped convict)
CNChieko Nakakita
Chieko Nakakita
Katsuko Horiuchi (Toshiko’s mother)
氏
氏家真紀
Mari (Bar woman)
YTYoshibumi Tajima
Yoshibumi Tajima
Tsurukichi Togawa (Escaped convict)

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