Crime ·Comedy · Japan · 1965 · 1h 57m

Tale of Japanese Burglars

にっぽん泥棒物語

Director

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni as Gisuke Hayashida Yūnosuke Itō as Lieutenant Ando Yoshiko Sakuma as Hana Takahashi Shinjirō Ehara as Baba Kurakichi Mako Midori as Fukuko Hayashida Tanie Kitabayashi as Hayashida's mother

Crew

Hanjirō Nakazawa — Director of Photography Yoshiki Nagasawa — Editor Sei Ikeno — Original Music Composer Hajime Takaiwa — Screenplay Atsushi Takeda — Screenplay

Synopsis

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

Key Collaborators

Satsuo Yamamoto Director Hanjirō Nakazawa Director of Photography Yoshiki Nagasawa Editor Sei Ikeno Original Music Composer Hajime Takaiwa Screenplay Atsushi Takeda Screenplay

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