The Black Trademark (1963)
Original title: 黒の商標
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
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Ken UtsuiKoji Sugino
Yukiko FujiYukiko Tago
Hideo TakamatsuAkio Kakiuchi
Kyōko EnamiJunko Hamanaka
Jun HamamuraKazunori Tago
Masao MishimaRyuichi Terasawa
Yūzō Hayakawa
Machiko HorikawaNurse
Yoshio TakeeSection Chief YamaokaNobuo Minamitaka
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What is The Black Trademark about?
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
How long is The Black Trademark?
The Black Trademark has a runtime of 79 minutes.