Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge

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

1977 · 95 min · ★ 6.8 · Mystery

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.

Directed by Katsumi Nishikawa · Written by Kei Hattori

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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

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