Incandescent Flame

Sabita Honoo 錆びた炎

Director: Masahisa Sadanaga 貞永方久
Released: February 26, 1977
Distributor: Shochiku
Screenplay: Kengo Inomata 猪又憲吾 and Kyuzo Kobayashi 小林久三

Starring:
Meiko Kaji 梶芽衣子 as Toshiko Tanemura
Hiroshi Fujioka 藤岡弘 as Inspector Kitahara
Meiko Harada 原田美枝子 as Hisako Iyama
Kijiro Hirami 平幹二朗 as Jiro Tomaru
Maya Hiromi ひろみ麻耶 as Yoshimi Akino
Masao Murata 村田正雄 as Ikehiro
Hisayuki Nakajima as Hiroshi Taki
Atsuo Nakamura 中村敦夫 as Tachibana
Tetsuro Tanba 丹波哲郎 as Seiichiro Tanemura
Takeshi Obayashi 大林丈史 as Mitsuhara Tanemura
Naohiko Shigeta 重田尚彦 as Urayama
Makoto Saito 斉藤真 as Masami Murayama
Sayoko Ninomiya 二宮さよ子 as Masako Murayama
Kiko Watabi 綿引洪 as Nagamoto

Info:

Also known as Rusty Flame or Rusted Flame.

Based on the novel by Kyuzo Kobayashi 小林久三.

Plot:

In the early hours of April 13th, afive year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kitahara, who received the report is, goes quickly to the Tanemura home, along with other police to speak to the family of the child. Then, suddenly, the phone rings. The kidnapper wants money.