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Film / 1963
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
Directed by
Toshikazu Kono
Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who is later himself killed. His dying words in Umon's arms were, "I didn't kill the guard." The murdered criminal had been a safe-cracker & only his girlfriend knows where he hid a fortune. She is kidnapped, so the plot gets thicker & thicker.
The story
Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who is later himself killed. His dying words in Umon's arms were, "I didn't kill the guard." The murdered criminal had been a safe-cracker & only his girlfriend knows where he hid a fortune. She is kidnapped, so the plot gets thicker & thicker.
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Ryutaro OtomoKondo Umon
Eitarō ShindōKeishiro Murakami
Toshio TakaharaTalking Denroku
Minoru ChiakiKakurai Yosuke
Naoko KuboOsen
Isao KimuraTomokichi
Hiroko SakuramachiOrin
Kensaku HaraYagoro
Akira ShiojiMatsuya's guests
Shun'ichi Ike
Michiyo Mori
Shinju Kasuga
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