

111 minutes
5/28/1965
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.

Chieko Baisho
as Kiriko Yanagida

Osamu Takizawa
as Kinzô Ôtsuka

Michiyo Aratama
as Michiko Kôno

Yūsuke Kawazu
as Ken'ichi Sugita

Yōsuke Kondō
as Kôichi Abe

Taketoshi Naitō
as Prosecutor Shimada

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
as Masao Yanagida

Etsuko Ichihara
as Nobuko
Koji Kiyomura
as Hisaoka
Masakazu Kuwayama
as Okumura

Torahiko Hamada
as Judge

Kenzō Tabu
as Detective

Sumiko Abe
as Madam of the Kaiso bar

Takanobu Hozumi
as Manager of the Minase

Chieko Misaki
as Landlady

Hisashi Igawa
as Man on Boat
Fumio Ōmachi

Tsûsai Sugawara

Jiro Kawarazaki
as Yamagami

Yumeko Aizome
as Yoshiko Ôtsuka
Yoshiko Maki
Munemaru Kôda
Kôei Yamamoto
Hiroyuki Wachi

Sōnosuke Oda
Shôsuke Oni
Hiroshi Aoyama
Tsuneko Sasaki
Kiyo Murakami
Kamon Kawamura
Ken Okabe
Keisuke Maeda
Yûji Takasugi
Keiji Tsuchida