A Design for Dying

A Design for Dying (1961)

Drama

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.

Director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Writer: Kaneto Shindō

Casts

	Machiko Kyō as Shikiko Oba
	Junko Kano as Katsumi Tsubota
	Tamao Nakamura as Tomie Oki
	Ayako Wakao as Rinko Tsugawa
	Jirō Tamiya as Ginshiro Yashiro
	Masayuki Mori as Professor Shiraishi
	Taketoshi Naitō as Keita Nomoto
	Eiji Funakoshi as Hideo Sone
	Kazuko Miyakawa as Yoko Shirakawa
	Hiromi Ichida as Model B
	Mitsuko Tanaka as Waitress
	Noriko Hodaka as Nurse
	Sumiko Hidaka as Utako Ito
	Kô Sugita as Kurata
	Hisako Takihana as Kiyo, the maid
	Chikako Hosokawa as Kyoko Ohara
	Ken Mitsuda as Taizo Ohara
	Chieko Murata as Kaneko Yasuda
	Kōichi Itō as Administrative Manager Hirayama
	Yasushi Sugita as Kurata
	Yūzō Hayakawa as Hospital newspaper reporter A
	Noboru Isogai as Hospital newspaper reporter B
	Kanji Matsumoto as Hotel boy
	Yūko Hamada as Model A
	Tomoko Miura as Model C

Crew