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A man and a woman met at a murder.... It was just the beginning of their tragic love.
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.Read moreLess
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
The story
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Momoe YamaguchiKiriko Yanagida
Tomokazu MiuraKeiichi Abe
Rentaro MikuniKinzo Otsuka
Hiroshi SekiguchiMasao Yanagida
Haruko KatōYoshiko Otsuka
Izumi HaraKiku Watanabe
Renji IshibashiTakeo Yamagami
Ryūnosuke KanedaLawyer Hyodo
Miyuki KojimaNobuko Ehara
Akiko KoyamaMichiko Kono
Shigeru KōyamaEditor Tanimura
Yūsuke NatsuKenji SugiuraExplore the crew
- Director
- Katsumi Nishikawa
- Director of Photography
- Yonezō Maeda
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Editor
- Akira Suzuki
- Screenplay
- Kei Hattori