A real low-grade programmer from the seemingly endless supply put out by Republic Studios. Set it Japan, it headlines Martha Hyer as an American trying to find out the facts in the death of her brother. The brother had been in the import-export business before turning up dead of an apparent suicide. On top of that, his warehouse was found full of opium. Hyer does not believe any of it and intends to clear her brother's name. Byron Michie plays an ex-serviceman who offers to help Hyer on her quest for the truth. Michie knows the underworld since he makes a living stealing goods from one black market gang and then selling the swag to another gang. She falls for the heel only to find out at the end it was Michie who had bumped off her brother. Several fights, a gun, a knife or two and a couple of twists here and there try to keep the pace moving. Ray Stahl, the then Mister Hyer supplies the less than stellar direction. With a better director and a higher budget this might have be a real neat little B- film. This was one of several films made in Japan by Hyer and Stahl.
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