01 Mar 1963
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Yellow Line
The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Top Billed Cast
天知茂 Kazuhiro Moroki
三原葉子 Emi Ozuki
吉田輝雄 Toshio Mayama
沼田曜一 Newspaper editor
Torahiko Nakamura Yoshihide Matsudaira
大友純 Agawa
沖竜次 Tetsu
Baku Mizuhara 
三条魔子 Yumiko Katsura
若杉嘉津子 Hotel Madame
Reiko Seto Casbah prostitute
Akiko Ono Woman selling foreign cigarettes
Masayo Yoshida Bar Madame
扇町京子 Woman at hotel
Michiyo Ichikawa 鳴門洋二 Piler Masa
Seiji Hara Shinko Shipping watchman
川部修詩 Poet
Takeshi Kobayashi Foreigner
Enver Altenbay
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