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.
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Chieko Baisho
Kiriko Yanagida
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Yoji Yamada Director · Shinobu Hashimoto Screenplay Seicho Matsumoto Author
First release May 28, 1965 · Produced in Japan · Original title 霧の旗
Production
Shochiku
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Japan
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Original title
霧の旗
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · May 28, 1965
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No release date listed for United States.
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