The Decoy

Original title: 脱獄囚

Duration: 86 min

Release date: 1957-11-26

IMDB

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.

Thriller

脱獄囚

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as Detective Hoshino

Mitsuko Kusabue

Mitsuko Kusabue

as Setsuko (Hoshino’s wife)

as Toshiko Horiuchi

as Saitō (Chief Inspector)

as Ikuko Koide (Prosecutor’s daughter)

as Ryōsuke Yamashita (Escaped convict)

as Senji Tabata (Escaped convict)

Chieko Nakakita

Chieko Nakakita

as Katsuko Horiuchi (Toshiko’s mother)

as Mari (Bar woman)

Yoshibumi Tajima

Yoshibumi Tajima

as Tsurukichi Togawa (Escaped convict)

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Director of Photography

Chōshirō Ishii

Hisashi Shimonaga

Hisashi Shimonaga

Sound Recordist

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Tadashi Akiyama

Tadashi Akiyama

Assistant Director

Takeharu Shimada

Takeharu Shimada

Production Manager

Kôichi Iwashita

Kôichi Iwashita

Yasushi Akutagawa

Yasushi Akutagawa

Original Music Composer

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