The Last Embrace

The Last Embrace — Plot

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.

• Release date
• March 11, 1953
• Runtime
• 87 min
• Genres
• Romance, Drama
• Director
• Masahiro Makino

The Last Embrace — Cast

Yoshiko Yamaguchi Yukiko Nogami Toshirō Mifune Shinkichi / Hayakawa Takashi Shimura Watanabe (Nabesan) Akihiko Hirata Yamaoka (Sandaime) Hiroshi Koizumi Yoshikawa (Sampei) Sachio Sakai Uchimura (Saboten) Katsumi Tezuka Gangster Seiji Miyaguchi Gangster