Sweet Revenge (1977)
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
Director:
Katsumi Nishikawa
Writer:
Kei Hattori
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Momoe Yamaguchi as Kiriko Yanagida |
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Tomokazu Miura as Keiichi Abe |
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Rentaro Mikuni as Kinzo Otsuka |
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Hiroshi Sekiguchi as Masao Yanagida |
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Haruko Katō as Yoshiko Otsuka |
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Izumi Hara as Kiku Watanabe |
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Renji Ishibashi as Takeo Yamagami |
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Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Lawyer Hyodo |
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Miyuki Kojima as Nobuko Ehara |
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Akiko Koyama as Michiko Kono |
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Shigeru Kōyama as Editor Tanimura |
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Yūsuke Natsu as Kenji Sugiura |
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Shin'ya Ohwada as Lawyer Shiratori |
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Masaya Takahashi as Prosecutor |
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Tomiko Ishii as Madam of the Noa Noa bar |
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Yutaka Hayashi as Nishimura |
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Toru Wakasugi as Yamakawa |
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Mayuko Nishimura as Sanae Yashiro |
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Isao Tamagawa as Detective Oka |
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Yōko Machida as Madam of the Kaiso club |
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Masakazu Kuwayama as Keinosuke Okumura |
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Hiroshi Gojo as |
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Tatsuya Hamaguchi as |
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Takuto Anzai as Hisaoka |
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Hisayoshi Yamane as |
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Toshihiko Oda as |
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Ichiro Kijima as |
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Mizuho Suzuki as |
| Directing | Katsumi Nishikawa | Director |
| Writing | Seicho Matsumoto | Original Story |
| Camera | Yonezō Maeda | Director of Photography |
| Art | Akiyoshi Satani | Art Direction |
| Sound | Nobumasa Fukushima | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Haruo Kawashima | Lighting Technician |
| Production | Takeo Hori | Executive Producer |
| Production | Hideo Sasai | Executive Producer |
| Production | Hiroshi Kanazawa | Associate Producer |
| Editing | Akira Suzuki | Editor |
| Sound | Masaru Satō | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Kei Hattori | Screenplay |