Film

A Design for Dying

1961 · 1h 50m · Drama

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.

Machiko Kyō

Shikiko Oba

Junko Kano

Katsumi Tsubota

Tamao Nakamura

Tomie Oki

Ayako Wakao

Rinko Tsugawa

Jirō Tamiya

Ginshiro Yashiro

Masayuki Mori

Professor Shiraishi

Taketoshi Naitō

Keita Nomoto

Eiji Funakoshi

Hideo Sone

Kazuko Miyakawa

Yoko Shirakawa

Hiromi Ichida

Model B

Mitsuko Tanaka

Waitress

Noriko Hodaka

Nurse

Sumiko Hidaka

Utako Ito

Kô Sugita

Kurata

Hisako Takihana

Kiyo, the maid

Chikako Hosokawa

Kyoko Ohara

• Kōzaburō YoshimuraDirector
• Kaneto ShindōScreenplay
• Masaichi NagataExecutive Producer
• Jōji OharaDirector of Photography

Release date

June 28, 1961

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama