

Movie
Tarao Bannai
The Legendary Detective Returns
9.5(2)19781h 44m
Baseball player Takatsuka is murdered mid-game in front of a large crowd. The autopsy reveals that he has been killed by a needle coated with a poison used by the Ainu tribe for hunting. The next morning, sports photographer Kawase is killed in the same manner. Kawase’s sister, Yuko, hires Taro Banai, the detective with seven faces, to uncover the truth.
- Director
- Norifumi Suzuki
- Writers
- Kōji Takada
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Cast

Akira Kobayashi
Bannai Tarao

Aki Yashiro

Yoko Natsuki
Masako Niimura
Toshio Egi

Ann Lewis
Singer

Toshiaki Minami

Midori Takei

Atsuko Kawaguchi
Chiemi Seki

Nami Misaki

Tōru Abe
Koizumi

Torahiko Hamada

Hirohisa Nakata

Kyōichi Satō

Isao Kuraishi
Detective Yamamoto

Masashi Ishibashi

Mikio Narita
Goro Seo

Bin Amatsu
Hachiro Mochizuki

Ichirō Zaitsu
Detective Udagawa

Ryō Ikebe
Nobuyuki Kinomata
Crew
Directing
- Norifumi SuzukiDirector
Writing
- Yoshitake HisaOriginal Series Creator
- Kōji TakadaScreenplay
Camera
- Tetsuya DesakiDirector of Photography
Sound
- Masao YagiOriginal Music Composer