01 Mar 1963
High and Low
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.
Fire Line
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).
Top Billed Cast
吉田輝雄 Shin'ichi
三原葉子 Yumi
天知茂 Kuroiwa
Jun Kambayashi Sabu
Den Kunikata Kindaichi
Kôichi Miya Kyôji
田崎潤 Shigemune
Ryuji Wakamiya Koyama
大友純 Naganuma
Keiko Tachibana Kyôko
成瀬昌彦 Nakamoto
Yuji Munakata Yôji
鳴門洋二 Kenji
Hiroshi Tsukiji Sakutarō Yamakawa Kinya Miyagawa Takako Sasaki
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