The Last Embrace

The story

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.

Cast & crew

Yoshiko YamaguchiYukiko Nogami

Toshirō MifuneShinkichi / Hayakawa

Takashi ShimuraWatanabe (Nabesan)

Akihiko HirataYamaoka (Sandaime)

Hiroshi KoizumiYoshikawa (Sampei)

Sachio SakaiUchimura (Saboten)

Katsumi TezukaGangster

Seiji MiyaguchiGangster

Ren YamamotoNumaguchi (Kurochan)

Toyoko Takegawa

Toyoko TakegawaMadame Natsuko

Yo Shiomi

Yo ShiomiMitsutaro