Sweet Revenge

A man and a woman met at a murder.... It was just the beginning of their tragic love.

Sweet Revenge — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 17, 1977
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Mystery
• Director
• Katsumi Nishikawa

Sweet Revenge — Cast

Momoe Yamaguchi Kiriko Yanagida Tomokazu Miura Keiichi Abe Rentaro Mikuni Kinzo Otsuka Hiroshi Sekiguchi Masao Yanagida Haruko Katō Yoshiko Otsuka Izumi Hara Kiku Watanabe Renji Ishibashi Takeo Yamagami Ryūnosuke Kaneda Lawyer Hyodo