93 minutes
10/6/1959
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.
Ryōji Hayama
as Maki
Mihoko Inagaki
as Akiko
Yōko Minamida
as Takako
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
as Matsunaga
Hiroshi Kondō
as Hachirô
Kaku Takashina
as Kabu
Akira Ōizumi
as Nishi
Hiroshi Hijikata
as Onoda
Fumio Ōmachi
as Takeuchi
Tatsuo Matsushita
as Miyaoka
Zenji Yamada
as Suzuki
Nobuo Kawakami
Zenpei Saga
as Yoshimitsu
Mieko Hirooka
as Michie Yokota
Fudeko Tanaka
as Michie's mother Toyo
Hiroshi Kōno
as Otaguro
Shirō Yanase
as Nabe
Kenzô Kawabe
as Killer
Shusui Tsuda
Yukihiko Sugi
as Student