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When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.Read moreLess
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
The story
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
Cast & crew
Chieko BaishoKiriko Yanagida
Osamu TakizawaKinzô Ôtsuka
Michiyo AratamaMichiko Kôno
Yūsuke KawazuKen'ichi Sugita
Yōsuke KondōKôichi Abe
Taketoshi NaitōProsecutor Shimada
Shigeru TsuyuguchiMasao Yanagida
Etsuko IchiharaNobuko
Torahiko HamadaJudge
Kenzō TabuDetectiveExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Shinobu Hashimoto
- Director
- Yoji Yamada
- Producer
- Shigeru Wakita
- Director of Photography
- Tetsuo Takaha
- Editor
- Keiichi Uraoka
- Original Music Composer
- Hikaru Hayashi