A Trap

A Trap

111 mins | Drama, Crime, Mystery | May 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.

A Trap

111 mins | Drama, Crime, Mystery | May 28, 1965

A Trap
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Original title 霧の旗
Directors Jirô Sugioka, Yoji Yamada
Writers Seicho Matsumoto, Shinobu Hashimoto

Cast

Chieko Baisho

as Kiriko Yanagida

Osamu Takizawa

as Kinzô Ôtsuka

Michiyo Aratama

as Michiko Kôno

Yūsuke Kawazu

as Ken'ichi Sugita

Yôsuke Kondô

as Kôichi Abe

Taketoshi Naitô

as Prosecutor Shimada

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

as Masao Yanagida

Etsuko Ichihara

as Nobuko

Koji Kiyomura

as Hisaoka

Masakazu Kuwayama

as Okumura

Torahiko Hamada

as Judge

Kenzô 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

Jiro Kawarazaki

as Yamagami

Yumeko Aizome

as Yoshiko Ôtsuka