A Trap
1965When 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.
Acted in
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
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