Yûji Takasugi

A Trap

Yoji Yamada

Chieko Baisho, Osamu Takizawa

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.

Akitsu Springs

Yoshishige Yoshida

Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

日本脱出

Yoshishige Yoshida

Yasushi Suzuki, Kyōsuke Machida

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.

八十八夜の月

Hirokazu Ichimura

Shima Iwashita, Hizuru Takachiho