23 October 1957 Drama, Crime 114 mins
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
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Ineko Arima as Shizuko
Fumio Watanabe as Nishida
Tatsuya Nakadai as Joe
Tomo'o Nagai as Okada
Keiko Awaji as Yasuko, Okada's wife
Asao Sano as Sakazaki
Seiji Miyaguchi as Kin
Isuzu Yamada as Mikiko, landlady
Sue Mitobe as Mihide
Eijirō Tōno as Kurihara
Toyo Takahashi as Kurihara's wife
Nakajirō Tomita as Yamaguchi
Chisato Kasuga as Ayako
Kin Sugai as Mother
Kanji Ōsugi as Yasui
Natsuko Kahara as Yasui's wife
Takeo Tomishima Story
Masaki Kobayashi Director
Kazue Hirataka Art Direction
Ikuo Kogiso Production Supervisor
Yûji Nagashima Costume Design
Michisaburô Yasuda Set Decoration
Ninjin Kurabu Production Design
Ryōtarō Kuwata Producer
Yûharu Atsuta Director of Photography
Chūji Kinoshita Original Music Composer
Yûgorô Imai Assistant Director
Kintarô Yamamoto Set Designer
Yoshiyasu Hamamura Editor
Hideo Nishizaki Sound
Mitsuru Kaneko Sound mixer
Shinichi Kishimoto Sound
Kuroi kawa Trailer
Japan 23 October 1957
United States 16 April 2013
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15 September 1957
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance.
07 February 1957
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