# Proof of the Man (1977)

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**Original title**: *人間の証明*
**Runtime**: 132 min
**Genres**: Drama, Crime, Mystery
**Directed by**: Junya Satō
**Written by**: Zenzō Matsuyama
**Starring**: Mariko Okada, George Kennedy, Yūsaku Matsuda, Hajime Hana, Broderick Crawford, Joe Yamanaka

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Snow clinging to Tokyo eaves, a wallet scrapes the bar floor.

A gaijin’s last drink arrives in a stranger’s name.

The tourist’s corpse is awake only in the detective’s mind.

A Tokyo sleuth follows the dead man’s scent across the Pacific just to catch the scent of home.

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