"Stark, intense drama almost beyond belief!"

1963

2h 22m

8.3(997 votes)

Drama

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Overview

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

2 videos

Cast & Crew

48 members

Acting

三船敏郎

Kingo Gondo

Acting

仲代達矢

Chief Detective Tokura

Acting

香川京子

Reiko Gondo

Acting

三橋達也

Kawanishi, Gondo's secretary

Acting

木村功

Detective Arai

Acting

石山健二郎

Chief Detective 'Bos'n' Taguchi

Acting

加藤武

Detective Nakao

Acting

志村喬

Chief of Investigation Section

Acting

田崎潤

Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director

Acting

中村伸郎

Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director

Acting

伊藤雄之助

Baba - National Shoes Executive

Acting

山崎努

Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern

Acting

千秋実

First Reporter

Acting

東野英治郎

Factory Worker

Acting

清水将夫

Prison Warden

Acting

佐田豊

Aoki - the Chauffeur

Acting

島津雅彦

Shinichi Aoki

Acting

江木俊夫

Jun Gondo

No Image

Acting

三井弘次

Second Reporter

Acting

山茶花究

First Creditor

Acting

藤田進

Chief of First Investigating Section

Acting

藤原釜足

Junkyard Cook

Acting

土屋嘉男

Detective Murata

Acting

北村和夫

Third Reporter

No Image

Acting

清水元

Chief Physician

Acting

名古屋章

Detective Yamamoto

Acting

浜村純

Second Creditor

Acting

織田政雄

First Executor at Tax Office

Acting

西村晃

Third Creditor

Acting

田島義文

Chief Prison Officer

Acting

清村耕次

Fish Market Office Worker

No Image

Acting

宇南山宏

Detective Shimada

No Image

Acting

Yoshisuke Makino

Detective Takahashi

No Image

Acting

Jun Kondô

Identification Center Worker

No Image

Acting

Tomo Suzuki

Detective Koike

Acting

大村千吉

Messenger Passing Note to Intern

Acting

加藤和夫

Identification Center Worker

Acting

沢村いき雄

Yokohama Station Trolley Man

Acting

菅井きん

Female Drug Addict

Acting

富田恵子

Murder Victim

Acting

Isao Onoda

Male Drug Addict

No Image

Acting

Seiichi Taguchi

Detective Nakamura

No Image

Acting

Takeo Matsushita

Second Executor at Tax Office

No Image

Directing

山本清史

Detective Ueno

Acting

児玉謙次

Detective Hara

Acting

伊藤実

Detective

No Image

Acting

鈴木治夫

Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict'

No Image

Acting

野村浩三

Detective (uncredited)

Similar Movies

6.1

1962

Redhead

Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.

Movie

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

5.0

1995

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami mafia.

Movie

6.3

2013

Blue Season

A woman wakes up hanging upside down. When she screams for help, a phone rings and a voice helps her escape.

Movie

1.7

2000

Sexual Intrigue

Charlie Taylor gets a surprise release from jail after a year for a crime he denies committing. His songwriter girlfriend Randi is glad he's back and calls on an ex-boyfriend, Carl Olsen, to get Charlie a job. Carl, now a district attorney in the Malibu area, hooks Charlie up with Emma De Layle, the sultry wife of an ill but still-powerful rich man. She wants Charlie to be the middleman in a fake kidnapping of her step-daughter, Melissa, who's in on the plot because she wants cash to break free of dad and Emma is happy to have her leave. Things are bound to go wrong, and Charlie may be left holding the bag yet again. Who's pulling all the strings in this web of intrigue?

Movie

2022

Nut Jobs

Benjamin tells his ex-girlfriend, Angie, that he joined a cell of left-wing terrorists to get revenge on her former boss, who owns a right-wing radio station. His story blends conceptual artists, amateur theatre troupes, hallucinogenic vinyl record and other magical powers. All that nonsense leave Angie wondering if he made that up only to win her back.

Movie

6.6

1986

F/X

A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.

Movie

5.6

1996

Striptease

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.

Movie

5.8

2002

Collateral Damage

Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.

Movie

5.4

2007

Outlaw

A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.

Movie

6.5

2006

Waist Deep

An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.

Movie

5.2

2006

Freedomland

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Movie

6.2

2002

The Good Girl

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Movie

6.2

2005

The Big White

To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.

Movie

6.6

2018

Cut Off

A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

Movie

7.5

1946

Beauty and the Beast

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

Movie

7.9

1954

On the Waterfront

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.

Movie

8.1

1984

Paris, Texas

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Movie

7.4

1979

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

Movie

7.9

1962

La Jetée

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Movie

7.6

1947

Out of the Past

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

Movie

Recommended Movies

8.1

1965

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Movie

7.3

1993

Madadayo

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

Movie

8.0

1958

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Movie

8.0

1962

Sanjuro

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Movie

8.3

1952

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Movie

7.8

1980

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

Movie

7.1

1957

The Lower Depths

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

Movie

6.1

2018

Little Miss Sumo

In an ancient sport traditionally reserved for men, 20-year-old female sumo prodigy Hiyori attempts to revolutionize Japan’s national pastime.

Movie

6.3

1992

Al lupo, al lupo

Vanni, Gregorio and Livia are brothers. The first is a well-known pianist, the second has abandoned his career as an aspiring violinist to become a deejay. When Vanni discovers that his father has disappeared into thin air, together with Gregorio they decide to call his sister Livia. The three relatives travel the length and breadth of Tuscany to find their missing parent.

Movie

6.9

1963

Who's Minding the Store?

Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?

Movie

6.5

1997

My Secret Cache

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cash falling into a nearby river. For the remainder of the film, Sakiko begins a desperate quest to retrieve the money.

Movie

6.4

1959

The Moralist

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

Movie

6.7

1993

The Great Pumpkin

An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.

Movie

7.0

1962

Long Day's Journey Into Night

An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline.

Movie

6.6

2001

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Movie

7.4

2009

The Cat Piano

A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony.

Movie

6.5

1987

The Way Things Go

Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss create the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. The pair used found objects to construct a complex, interdependent contraption in an empty warehouse. When set in motion, a domino-like chain reaction ripples through the complex of imaginative devices. Fire, water, the laws of gravity, and chemistry determine the life-cycle of the objects. The process reveals a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, and improbability and precision, in an extended science project that will mesmerize the mind.

Movie

6.0

1927

Two Arabian Knights

During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation in 2016.

Movie

7.1

1991

Karniggels

After his training as a policeman, the young, shy Köppe is transferred to a northern German town. Unfortunately, in an area where fox and rabbit say goodnight, there is little for a lawman to do. So Köppe kills time with the search for mysterious cow murderers, flirting with two attractive women and befriending a likeable petty crook.

Movie

6.1

1966

Violence at Noon

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Movie

Overview

Links & Resources

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

Cast & Crew

三船敏郎

仲代達矢

香川京子

三橋達也

木村功

石山健二郎

加藤武

志村喬

田崎潤

中村伸郎

伊藤雄之助

山崎努

千秋実

東野英治郎

清水将夫

佐田豊

島津雅彦

江木俊夫

三井弘次

山茶花究

藤田進

藤原釜足

土屋嘉男

北村和夫

清水元

名古屋章

浜村純

織田政雄

西村晃

田島 義文

清村耕次

宇南山宏

Yoshisuke Makino

Jun Kondô

Tomo Suzuki

大村千吉

加藤和夫

沢村いき雄

菅井きん

富田恵子

Isao Onoda

Seiichi Taguchi

Takeo Matsushita

山本清史

児玉謙次

伊藤実

鈴木治夫

野村浩三

Similar Movies

Redhead

Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan

Blue Season

Sexual Intrigue

Nut Jobs

F/X

Striptease

Collateral Damage

Outlaw

Waist Deep

Freedomland

The Good Girl

The Big White

Cut Off

Beauty and the Beast

On the Waterfront

Paris, Texas

The Marriage of Maria Braun

La Jetée

Out of the Past

Recommended Movies

Red Beard

Madadayo

The Hidden Fortress

Sanjuro

Ikiru

田島義文