A Trap
- Released on
- Runtime
- 111 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Chieko Baisho
- Osamu Takizawa
- Michiyo Aratama
- Yūsuke Kawazu
- Yousuke Kondou
- Taketoshi Naitō
- Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
- Etsuko Ichihara
- Koji Kiyomura
- Masakazu Kuwayama
- Torahiko Hamada
- Kenzō Tabu
- Sumiko Abe
- Takanobu Hozumi
- Chieko Misaki
- Hisashi Igawa
- Fumio Ōmachi
- Tsûsai Sugawara
- Jiro Kawarazaki
- Yumeko Aizome
- 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
Director
- Yoji Yamada
Producers
- Shigeru Wakita
Screenwriter
- Shinobu Hashimoto
