A Design for Dying
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Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
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Machiko Kyō
Shikiko Oba
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Junko Kano
Katsumi Tsubota
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Tamao Nakamura
Tomie Oki
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Taketoshi Naitō
Keita Nomoto
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Hideo Sone
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Kazuko Miyakawa
Yoko Shirakawa
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Hiromi Ichida
Model B
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Mitsuko Tanaka
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Kōzaburō Yoshimura Director · Kaneto Shindō Screenplay Toyoko Yamasaki Story
First release June 28, 1961 · Produced in Japan · Original title 女の勲章
Production
Daiei Film
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Japan
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Original title
女の勲章
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · June 28, 1961
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No release date listed for United States.
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