- Country: Japan
- Genres: Comedy
- Release: 1965-05-01
- Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
- Writers: Hajime Takaiwa , Atsushi Takeda
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Rentaro Mikuni , Yūnosuke Itō , Shin’ichi Chiba , Shinjirô Ehara , Tokue Hanazawa , Etsuko Ichihara , Kenji Imai , Takeshi Katō , Yoshi Katō , Tanie Kitabayashi
- Runtime: 117 min
- Awards: 3 wins
- AKA: Криминальные японские истории (Russian Federation) , Повесть о японском воре (Russian Federation) , にっぽん泥棒物語 (Japan) , Nippon dorobô monogatari
- Plot: Gisuke is an illegal dentist by day and a thief by night. One night during an attempted robbery he witnesses a derailment. Later communists are found guilty of the incident, but he knows it was not them.
- IMDB:tt0320167
Nippon dorobô monogatari Cast · · · ALL
Satsuo Yamamoto
Director
Rentaro Mikuni
Gisuke Hayashida
Yūnosuke Itō
Lieutenant Ando
Yoshiko Sakuma
Hana Takahashi
Shinjirô Ehara
Baba Kurakichi
Mako Midori
Fukuko Hayashida
Tanie Kitabayashi
Hayashida's mother
Shin’ichi Chiba
Lawyer Ohki
Kō Nishimura
Yoshi Katō
Lawyer Fujimoto
Takeshi Katō
Public prosecutor Tamura
Etsuko Ichihara
Momoko
Tomo’o Nagai
Presiding judge
Yoshio Yoshida
Kameya's owner
Kenji Imai
Young detective
Rinichi Yamamoto
Fujie Satsuki
Tokue Hanazawa
Mizuho Suzuki
Genji Kawai
Kenji Ushio
Akikane Sawa
Keiichi Kitagawa
Akira Kuji
Haruko Toda
Kyoji Sugi