Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Yoji Yamada Director
- Chieko Baisho as Kiriko Yanagida
- Osamu Takizawa as Kinzô Ôtsuka
- Michiyo Aratama as Michiko Kôno
- Yūsuke Kawazu as Ken'ichi Sugita
- Yōsuke Kondō as Kôichi Abe
- Taketoshi Naitō as Prosecutor Shimada
- Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Masao Yanagida
- Etsuko Ichihara as Nobuko
- Koji Kiyomura as Hisaoka
- Masakazu Kuwayama as Okumura
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