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A Trap
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A Trap

May 28, 1965
1h 51m
★ 7.1

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.

Genres

Mystery
Drama
Crime

Production Companies

Shochiku

Cast

Chieko Baisho

Kiriko Yanagida

Chieko Baisho

Osamu Takizawa

Kinzô Ôtsuka

Osamu Takizawa

Michiyo Aratama

Michiko Kôno

Michiyo Aratama

Yūsuke Kawazu

Ken'ichi Sugita

Yūsuke Kawazu

Yōsuke Kondō

Kôichi Abe

Yōsuke Kondō

Taketoshi Naitō

Prosecutor Shimada

Taketoshi Naitō

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Masao Yanagida

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Etsuko Ichihara

Nobuko

Etsuko Ichihara

No Image

Hisaoka

Koji Kiyomura

No Image

Okumura

Masakazu Kuwayama

Torahiko Hamada

Judge

Torahiko Hamada

Kenzō Tabu

Detective

Kenzō Tabu

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