A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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| 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 | Yoshibumi 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 Ōmura |
| Identification Center Worker | Kazuo Katō |
| 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 Itō |
| Undercover Detective 'Drug Addict' | Haruo Suzuki |
| Detective (uncredited) | Kōzō Nomura |
