A Trap (1965)
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:
Yoji Yamada
Writer:
Shinobu Hashimoto
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Chieko Baisho as Kiriko Yanagida |
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Osamu Takizawa as Kinzô Ôtsuka |
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Michiyo Aratama as Michiko Kôno |
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Yūsuke Kawazu as Ken'ichi Sugita |
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Yōsuke Kondō as Kôichi Abe |
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Taketoshi Naitō as Prosecutor Shimada |
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Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Masao Yanagida |
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Etsuko Ichihara as Nobuko |
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Koji Kiyomura as Hisaoka |
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Masakazu Kuwayama as Okumura |
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Torahiko Hamada as Judge |
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Kenzō Tabu as Detective |
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Sumiko Abe as Madam of the Kaiso bar |
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Takanobu Hozumi as Manager of the Minase |
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Chieko Misaki as Landlady |
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Hisashi Igawa as Man on Boat |
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Fumio Ōmachi as |
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Tsûsai Sugawara as |
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Jiro Kawarazaki as Yamagami |
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Yumeko Aizome as Yoshiko Ôtsuka |
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Yoshiko Maki as |
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Munemaru Kôda as |
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Kôei Yamamoto as |
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Hiroyuki Wachi as |
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Sōnosuke Oda as |
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Shôsuke Oni as |
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Hiroshi Aoyama as |
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Tsuneko Sasaki as |
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Kiyo Murakami as |
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Kamon Kawamura as |
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Ken Okabe as |
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Keisuke Maeda as |
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Yûji Takasugi as |
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Keiji Tsuchida as |
| Writing | Seicho Matsumoto | Novel |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Screenplay |
| Directing | Yoji Yamada | Director |
| Production | Shigeru Wakita | Producer |
| Art | Chiyoo Umeda | Art Direction |
| Camera | Tetsuo Takaha | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hikaru Hayashi | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Jirō Sugioka | Assistant Director |
| Art | Yoshiharu Kawazoe | Set Designer |
| Art | Yasuo Suzuki | Set Decoration |
| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka | Editor |
| Sound | Hirofumi Satô | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Sachio Obi | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Yasukuni Toida | Lighting Technician |
