An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

• Kingo Gondo: Toshirō Mifune
• Chief Detective Tokura: Tatsuya Nakadai
• Reiko Gondo: Kyōko Kagawa
• Kawanishi, Gondo’s secretary: Tatsuya Mihashi
• Detective Arai: Isao Kimura
• Chief Detective ‘Bos’n’ Taguchi: Kenjirō Ishiyama
• Detective Nakao: Takeshi Katō
• Chief of Investigation Section: Takashi Shimura
• Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director: Jun Tazaki
• Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director: Nobuo Nakamura
• Baba – National Shoes Executive: Yūnosuke Itō
• Ginjirô Takeuchi – Medical Intern: Tsutomu Yamazaki
• First Reporter: Minoru Chiaki
• Factory Worker: Eijirō Tōno
• Prison Warden: Masao Shimizu
• Aoki – the Chauffeur: Yutaka Sada
• Shinichi Aoki: Masahiko Shimazu
• Jun Gondo: Toshio Egi
• Second Reporter: Kōji Mitsui
• First Creditor: Kyū Sazanka
• Chief of First Investigating Section: Susumu Fujita
• Junkyard Cook: Kamatari Fujiwara
• Detective Murata: Yoshio Tsuchiya
• Third Reporter: Kazuo Kitamura
• Chief Physician: Gen Shimizu
• Detective Yamamoto: Akira Nagoya
• Second Creditor: Jun Hamamura
• First Executor at Tax Office: Masao Oda
• Third Creditor: Kō Nishimura
• Chief Prison Officer: Yoshifumi Tajima
• Fish Market Office Worker: Koji Kiyomura
• Detective Shimada: Hiroshi Unayama
• Detective Takahashi: Yoshisuke Makino
• Identification Center Worker: Jun Kondô
• Detective Koike: Tomo Suzuki
• Messenger Passing Note to Intern: Senkichi Ômura
• Identification Center Worker: Kazuo Katô
• Yokohama Station Trolley Man: Ikio Sawamura
• Female Drug Addict: Kin Sugai
• Murder Victim: Keiko Tomita
• Male Drug Addict: Isao Onoda
• Detective Nakamura: Seiichi Taguchi
• Second Executor at Tax Office: Takeo Matsushita
• Detective Ueno: Kiyoshi Yamamoto
• Detective Hara: Kenji Kodama
• Detective: Minoru Itô
• Undercover Detective ‘Drug Addict’: Haruo Suzuki
• Detective (uncredited): Kôzô Nomura

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• Producer: Akira Kurosawa
• Screenplay: Hideo Oguni
• Novel: Evan Hunter
• Original Music Composer: Masaru Satō
• Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
• Music: Franz Schubert
• Assistant Director: Shirô Moritani
• Production Design: Yoshirô Muraki
• Producer: Ryûzô Kikushima
• Director of Photography: Asakazu Nakai
• Assistant Director: Yôichi Matsue
• Camera Intern: Katsuhiro Kato
• Director of Photography: Takao Saitō
• Screenplay: Eijirô Hisaita
• Script Supervisor: Teruyo Nogami
• Costume Design: Miyuki Suzuki
• Assistant Director: Kenjirô Ohmori
• First Assistant Camera: Kazutami Hara
• Property Master: Akio Nojima
• Editorial Production Assistant: Reiko Kaneko
• Sound Mixer: Hisashi Shimonaga
• Assistant Director: Masanobu Deme
• Lighting Technician: Hiromitsu Mori
• Sound Designer: Fumio Yanoguchi
• Production Supervisor: Hiroshi Nezu
• Sound Effects Editor: Ichirô Minawa
• Lighting Technician: Ichirô Inohara
• Assistant Camera: Masaharu Ueda

Credits: TheMovieDb.