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In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
Keywords
parent child relationship
film noir
biting
corporate greed
shakespeare in modern dress
japanese noir
complex
dramatic
suspenseful
audacious
tragic
Casts

Toshirō Mifune
Kôichi Nishi

Masayuki Mori
Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi

Kamatari Fujiwara
Assistant-to-the-Chief Wada

Takeshi Katō
Itakura

Kyōko Kagawa
Yoshiko Nishi

Tatsuya Mihashi
Tatsuo Iwabuchi

Takashi Shimura
Administrative Officer Moriyama

Kō Nishimura
Contract Officer Shirai

Kyū Sazanka
Construction Company Executive Director Kaneko
Someshō Matsumoto
Construction Company President Hatano

Gen Shimizu
Managing Director Miura

Atsuko Ichinomiya
Mrs. Ariyama

Natsuko Kahara
Mrs. Furuya
Nobuko Tashiro
Mrs. Moriyama
Ken Mitsuda
Public Corporation President Arimura

Kōji Nanbara
Public Prosecutor Horiuchi

Chishū Ryū
Public Prosecutor Nonaka

Seiji Miyaguchi
Public Prosecutor Okakura

Kin Sugai
Tomoko Wada

Yoshio Tsuchiya
ADA Secretary
Shirō Tsuchiya
Construction Company Employee #1
Sōji Ubukata
Construction Company Employee #2

Susumu Fujita
Detective

Kunie Tanaka
Hitman
Kyōko Ozawa
Iwabuchi Maid #1
Hiromi Mineoka
Iwabuchi Maid #2

Nobuo Nakamura
Legal Adviser
Ryôji Shimizu
Management Section Worker
Gorô Sakurai
Prosecutor

Kōji Mitsui
Reporter A

Yoshibumi Tajima
Reporter B
Hisashi Yokomori
Reporter C
Jun Kondô
Reporter D
Akemi Ueno
Safety Deposit Box Rental Receptionist

Ikio Sawamura
Taxi Driver
Toshiko Higuchi
Wada's Daughter

Yutaka Sada
Wedding Receptionist
Crews

Hideo Oguni
Writer

Akira Kurosawa
Writer

Ryūzō Kikushima
Writer

Akira Kurosawa
Producer

Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer

Akira Kurosawa
Director

Eijirō Hisaita
Writer

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer

Akira Kurosawa
Editor

Shinobu Hashimoto
Writer
Yuzuru Aizawa
Director of Photography
Takao Saitō
Assistant Camera

Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design
Shoji Kurihara
Costume Design
Fumio Yanoguchi
Sound Recordist
Ichirô Minawa
Sound Effects Editor

Yoshimitsu Banno
Assistant Director
Shirō Moritani
Assistant Director
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