The Decoy
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.
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)
Kurôemon Onoe
Senji Tabata (Escaped convict)
Chieko Nakakita
Katsuko Horiuchi (Toshiko’s mother)
氏家真紀
Mari (Bar woman)
Yoshibumi Tajima
Tsurukichi Togawa (Escaped convict)
Crew
Ken Ishikawa
Original Story
Hideo Suzuki
Director
Takeo Murata
Screenplay
Yasushi Akutagawa
Music
Masao Tamai
Director of Photography
Chōshirō Ishii
Gaffer
Kazuo Ogawa
Art Direction
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Recordist
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Tadashi Akiyama
Assistant Director
Takeharu Shimada
Production Manager
Kôichi Iwashita
Editor