Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley

Name: Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
Genre: Crime, Action, Western
Released: 1961-06-09
Duration: 1 h 2 min
Cast: Sonny Chiba, Harumi Sone, Shigemi Kitahara, Yuko Kobayashi, Yayoi Furusato

1961, Japanese. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a plot involving yakuza and a shady land developer to evict an old farmer off of his land to build a sky resort. Goro must now help the old farmer and his daughter and take those criminals on.

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Runtime: 1h 2m
Post-credits: None listed
Language: Japanese
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Released: 9 June 1961
Original title: 風来坊探偵　赤い谷の惨劇
Country: Japan
Written by: Yoshinari Matsubara, Fumio Kōnami

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Next in the series: Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor (1961).

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Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley runs 62 minutes (1h 2m).

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Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 9 June 1961. (Checked 14 November 2026.)

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Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley (1961) was directed by Kinji Fukasaku and stars Sonny Chiba, Harumi Sone, Shigemi Kitahara.