

The Wild Reporter
1959 Directed by Akinori MatsuoSeven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.

Yūjirō Ishihara
....................................................Toshio Ishimatsu

Mie Kitahara
....................................................Miki Kojima

Izumi Ashikawa
....................................................Reiko Togawa

Keiichirō Akagi
....................................................Kenji Togawa

Nobuo Kaneko
....................................................Funakoshi

Kō Nishimura
....................................................Ryu Konei

Masao Shimizu
....................................................Director
...........................................................Akinori Matsuo
Assistant Director
...........................................................Noboru Kaji
Music
...........................................................Hisao Ninomiya
Editor
...........................................................Masanori Tsujii
Screenplay
...........................................................Nobuo Yamada
Akinori Matsuo
Cinematography
...........................................................Minoru Yokoyama
Production Companies
...................................................Nikkatsu Corporation
Production Countries
........................................................Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................日本語
Genres
....................................................Action
Drama
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