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

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Cast

Kiriko Yanagida

Chieko Baisho

Kinzô Ôtsuka

Osamu Takizawa

Michiko Kôno

Michiyo Aratama

Ken'ichi Sugita

Yūsuke Kawazu

Kôichi Abe

Yōsuke Kondō

Prosecutor Shimada

Taketoshi Naitō

Masao Yanagida

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Nobuko

Etsuko Ichihara

Hisaoka

Koji Kiyomura

Okumura

Masakazu Kuwayama

Judge

Torahiko Hamada

Detective

Kenzō Tabu

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