The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
1957 · 73 min
Horror · Mystery
★ 8.0The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...
Crew
- Director Kyōtarō Namiki
- Screenplay Akira Sugimoto
- Director of Photography Shin Yamanaka
Cast
Shoji Nakayama
Tokusuke Kosaka
Shigeru Amachi
Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi
- H
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Tadayoshi Takayama
- M
Masaru Kodaka
MP Corporal Karita
Shuntarō Emi
Yatarô Kimizuka
- T
Toshio Hosokawa
MP Sergeant Major Hagiyama
- J
Junko Ebata
Shino Kashima
- N
Namiji Namiura
Taeko Kamoshita
- A
Akiko Mie
Yuriko Ito
Katsuko Wakasugi
Kiyoko Kashima
- M
Masao Takamatsu
- F
Fujio Murakami
Kaneda
Crew
- Director — Kyōtarō Namiki
- Screenplay — Akira Sugimoto
- Director of Photography — Shin Yamanaka
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