Chikagai no dankon (1949) DVD-R

Starring Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Takashi Shimura, Saburo Date, Toshiaki Konoe, Minoru Takada
Directed by Kazuo Mori
Print: Black/White
Runtime: 85 min
Genre: Mystery
Language: Japanese with English subtitles

Chikagai no Dankon is keen on selling a vision of order in a new Japan in which the police force employs all the latest technology to solve crimes calmly and methodically. We see them approach the crime scene forensically and conduct a series of scientific tests with microscopes and gadgets such as lie detector machines and code breaking equipment as they proceed towards the truth while earnest policeman Minagawa (Hiroshi Nihonyanagi) battles the ghosts of his past on realising that the dead man’s wife is his own lost love.