The Decoy

Genre: ThrillerRuntime: 1h 26mRelease: 26th November, 1957

Directors: Hideo SuzukiLanguages: JapaneseCountry: Japan

Plot: 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.

Company: TOHO

Cast:

Ryō Ikebe

Detective Hoshino

Mitsuko Kusabue

The Decoy

Cast:

Ryō Ikebe

Detective Hoshino

Mitsuko Kusabue

Setsuko (Hoshino’s wife)

Keiko Ieda

Toshiko Horiuchi

Susumu Fujita

Saitō (Chief Inspector)

Momoko Kôchi

Ikuko Koide (Prosecutor’s daughter)

Makoto Satō

Ryōsuke Yamashita (Escaped convict)