Film

Sweet Revenge

1977 · 1h 35m · Mystery

A man and a woman met at a murder.... It was just the beginning of their tragic love.

IMDb

6.9

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.

Momoe Yamaguchi

Kiriko Yanagida

Tomokazu Miura

Keiichi Abe

Rentaro Mikuni

Kinzo Otsuka

Hiroshi Sekiguchi

Masao Yanagida

Haruko Katō

Yoshiko Otsuka

Izumi Hara

Kiku Watanabe

Renji Ishibashi

Takeo Yamagami

Ryūnosuke Kaneda

Lawyer Hyodo

Miyuki Kojima

Nobuko Ehara

Akiko Koyama

Michiko Kono

Shigeru Kōyama

Editor Tanimura

Yūsuke Natsu

Kenji Sugiura

Shin'ya Ohwada

Lawyer Shiratori

Masaya Takahashi

Prosecutor

Tomiko Ishii

Madam of the Noa Noa bar

Yutaka Hayashi

Nishimura

• Katsumi NishikawaDirector
• Kei HattoriScreenplay
• Takeo HoriExecutive Producer
• Hideo SasaiExecutive Producer
• Yonezō MaedaDirector of Photography
• Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer
• Akira SuzukiEditor

Kiri-no-hata (1977) Original Trailer [HD]

Release date

December 17, 1977

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Mystery