Playful White Fingers
5.8
A girl falls for a pickpocketer who gets arrested, so she hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-cellmate.
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Cast
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Ichiro Araki
Taku
Known for
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
Hiroko Isayama
Yuki
Known for
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Hajime Tanimoto
Jiro
Known for
Cure
One Missed Call 2
Yoko Ishido
Yoko
Also in
The Girl and the Wooden Horse Torture
Nurse Girl Dorm: Sticky Fingers
Hiroshi Gojo
Yamaki
Also in
A Woman Called Sada Abe
The Man Who Stole the Sun
Yoshio Adachi
Friend A
Also in
Wet Lips
Seduction of the White Angel
Ichiro Kijima
Friend B
Also in
Lady Snowblood
Fairy in a Cage
Gō Awazu
Detective Tachikawa
Known for
Tampopo
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Ei Shirai
Shirai
Also in
Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues
Shûji Kagawa
Driver
Also in
Rope Hell
Painful Bliss: Final Twist
Tōru Murakawa Director · Tatsumi Kumashiro Screenplay Norihito Ozawa Composer
First release June 7, 1972 · Produced in Japan · Original title 白い指の戯れ
Production
Nikkatsu Corporation
Production · Studio
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
白い指の戯れ
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · June 7, 1972
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
June 20, 2026 · Limited theatrical · Cinémathèque Française
Japan
June 27, 2003 · Physical · Uplink DVD (Suruga)
December 1, 2012 · Digital · DMM/Fanza
March 4, 2014 · Physical · Happinet DVD
August 2, 2019 · Physical · Happinet Blu-ray
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