Kiri no hata
Released: May 28, 1965Runtime: 111 minLanguage: JA
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.
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Chieko Baisho
as Kiriko Yanagida aka Rieko
Osamu Takizawa
as Kinzô Ôtsuka
Michiyo Aratama
as Michiko Kôno
Yusuke Kawazu
as Ken'ichi Sugita
Yosuke Kondo
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Taketoshi Naito
as Shimada
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
as Masao Yanagida
Etsuko Ichihara
as Nobuko, Rieko's roommate
Koji Kiyomura
as Hisaoka
Masakazu Kuwayama
as Okumura
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