A Trap

May. 28,1965      
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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
Yousuke Kondou as  Kôichi Abe
Taketoshi Naitō as  Prosecutor Shimada
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as  Masao Yanagida
Etsuko Ichihara as  Nobuko
Masakazu Kuwayama as  Okumura
Torahiko Hamada as  Judge

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