Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella (1963)

10.0/10 87 min Crime Mystery History

Overview

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who is later himself killed. His dying words in Umon's arms were, "I didn't kill the guard." The murdered criminal had been a safe-cracker & only his girlfriend knows where he hid a fortune. She is kidnapped, so the plot gets thicker & thicker.

Cast

Ryutaro Otomo

Kondo Umon

Eitarō Shindō

Keishiro Murakami

Toshio Takahara

Talking Denroku

Minoru Chiaki

Kakurai Yosuke

Naoko Kubo

Osen

Isao Kimura

Tomokichi

Hiroko Sakuramachi

Orin

Kensaku Hara

Yagoro

Akira Shioji

Matsuya's guests

Harue Akagi

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