Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge

95 mins | Mystery | Dec. 17, 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.

Sweet Revenge

95 mins | Mystery | Dec. 17, 1977

Sweet Revenge
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.
Producers Toho Company, Ltd., Horipro
Original title 霧の旗
Directors Katsumi Nishikawa
Writers Seicho Matsumoto, Kei Hattori

Cast

Momoe Yamaguchi

as Kiriko Yanagida

Tomokazu Miura

as Keiichi Abe

Yûsuke Natsu

as Kenji Sugiura

Renji Ishibashi

as Takeo Yamagami

Yutaka Hayashi

as Nishimura

Toru Wakasugi

as Yamakawa

Mayuko Nishimura

as Sanae Yashiro

Isao Tamagawa

as Detective Oka

Izumi Hara

as Kiku Watanabe

Yôko Machida

as Madam of the Kaiso club

Miyuki Kojima

as Nobuko Ehara

Tomiko Ishii

as Madam of the Noa Noa bar

Masakazu Kuwayama

as Keinosuke Okumura

Takuto Anzai

as Hisaoka

Shigeru Kôyama

as Editor Tanimura

Ryūnosuke Kaneda

as Lawyer Hyodo

Masaya Takahashi

as Prosecutor

Haruko Katô

as Yoshiko Otsuka

Shin'ya Ohwada

as Lawyer Shiratori

Hiroshi Sekiguchi

as Masao Yanagida

Akiko Koyama

as Michiko Kono

Rentaro Mikuni

as Kinzo Otsuka