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

as Detective Hoshino

Mitsuko Kusabue

as Setsuko (Hoshino’s wife)

Keiko Ieda

as Toshiko Horiuchi

Susumu Fujita

as Saitō (Chief Inspector)

Momoko Kôchi

as Ikuko Koide (Prosecutor’s daughter)

Makoto Satō

as Ryōsuke Yamashita (Escaped convict)

Kurôemon Onoe

as Senji Tabata (Escaped convict)

Chieko Nakakita

as Katsuko Horiuchi (Toshiko’s mother)

氏家真紀

as Mari (Bar woman)

Yoshibumi Tajima

as 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