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The Black Trademark poster

The Black Trademark (1963)

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.

Release: 1963-09-07
Runtime: 79 min
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
Yūzō Hayakawa
Yūzō Hayakawa
Machiko Horikawa
Machiko Horikawa
Nurse
Yoshio Takee
Yoshio Takee
Section Chief Yamaoka
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Nobuo Minamitaka
Shō Natsuki
Shō Natsuki
Ide
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Kōichi Itō
Division Chief Nagasawa
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Shinji Kawashima
Miyata
Kanichi Tani
Kanichi Tani
Yoshio Takase
Sachiko Meguro
Sachiko Meguro
Takase's wife Masuko
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Rin Sugimori
Priest
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Toshiyuki Ohara
President Fukami