Sweet Revenge (1977)
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.
- Released
- 1977-12-17
- Genres
- Mystery
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Katsumi Nishikawa, Kei Hattori
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 from 6 votes
Cast
- Momoe Yamaguchi as Kiriko Yanagida
- Tomokazu Miura as Keiichi Abe
- Rentaro Mikuni as Kinzo Otsuka
- Hiroshi Sekiguchi as Masao Yanagida
- Haruko Katō as Yoshiko Otsuka
- Izumi Hara as Kiku Watanabe
- Renji Ishibashi as Takeo Yamagami
- Ryūnosuke Kaneda as Lawyer Hyodo
- Miyuki Kojima as Nobuko Ehara
- Akiko Koyama as Michiko Kono
- Shigeru Kōyama as Editor Tanimura
- Yūsuke Natsu as Kenji Sugiura
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