"Kidnapping Report"
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Released by: VAP
©Nippon Television Network, Toei
*Information as of February 2021.
This 1980 film was produced jointly by Toei and Nippon Television Network Corporation and was based on a documentary of the same name compiled by the Yomiuri Shimbun Osaka Headquarters Social Affairs Department, which depicted the Takarazuka City schoolchild kidnapping incident that occurred in 1982. Distributed by Toei.
Based on the abduction of a young child that occurred in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture in January 1980, this suspenseful film depicts the efforts of reporters, police, and the victim's family in the midst of the incident, all of whom are hurt but also hurt as they try to rescue the young life.
- Release (broadcast) year
- 1982
- Director Name
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Toshiya Ito
Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. After graduating from Kentoku High School, he graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo. In 1960, he joined Toei Studios and worked as an assistant director and screenwriter.
- Performer
who is aka Kazuo Furuya? Kenichi Hagiwara
Yoshie Furuya: Rumiko Koyanagi
Kaori Furuya: Kaori Takahashi (child actor)
Noboru Mitamura: Fujita Okamoto
Hisako Mitamura: Kumiko Akiyoshi
Hideyuki Mitamura: Wada Kyuyu(Child actor)
Kotaro Taki: Shin Takuma
Tomoko Tsushima: Miwako Fujitani
Hiromi: Junko Takazawa
Nobuyo Shoji:Shino Ikenami
Yasuaki Moriyasu: Akira Nakao
Debt Collector: Noboru Mitani
Kazuo's mother: 賀原夏子
Kubo Shinji: Masayuki Yuhara
Harue: Yoshiyo Matsuo
Branch Manager Onishi: Shinsuke Minami
Watanabe Cap: Shinya Owada
Azano reporter: Ichiro Ogura
Company A Cap: Hiroshi Miyauchi
Takarazuka Direct Distribution Manager: Nabe Osami
Kotaro's colleague: Isao Hashizume
Hattori, Chief of the Criminal Planning Division: Jun Fujimaki
Inspector Endo: Shiro Ito
Chief of the First Investigation Division of the Prefectural Police: Mikijiro Hira
Mitsumune Pilot: Sugawara Bunta
Domon Social Affairs Department Chief: Tetsuro TambaOther*The actors in bold appeared at the locations listed below.
Filming location of this work
●Scenes include the one in which Furuya Kazuo (Hagiwara Kenichi), a fugitive, demands a ransom from a public phone on the beach.
*Part of this scene can be seen in the trailer (1:11)
This is a valuable piece of footage from a time when Tango Onsen "Hashiudoso" and the old Tango Town Hall (now Tango Citizens' Bureau) building had not yet been built.
●A scene where Kazuo (Hagiwara Kenichi) is driving a car on a snowy road.
*Part of this scene can be seen in the trailer (1:06)
An old road that runs from the Nobara area to the Konoshiro area. Like the Tango Matsushima Observatory along National Route 178, this is a great spot to take photos of the sunrise over Tango Matsushima.
● A scene with Furuya Kazuo (Hagiwara Kenichi) and child actor Mitamura Hideyuki (Wada Kyuyu).
*Part of this scene can be seen in the trailer (1:39)
A cemetery located along the coast of National Route 178.
● Kazuo (Kenichi Hagiwara)A scene during the getaway.
*Part of this scene can be seen in the trailer (2:15)
"Kyogamisaki Tunnel (Ine side) / "Shiranami Wind Cave (Tango town side)" on the border between Tango town and Ine town on National Route 178
● The scene in which Kazuo (Hagiwara Kenichi) demands a ransom over a public phone at a seaside tobacco shop.
The filming took place in a row of work sheds along the beach in the Takeno district, which were transformed into "tobacco shops."
