A Design for Dying (1961)

  • NR
  • 06/28/1961 (JP)
  • 1h 50m

Overview

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.

Kaneto Shindō

Screenplay

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Director

Cast

Machiko Kyō's headshot

Machiko Kyō

Shikiko Oba
Junko Kano's headshot

Junko Kano

Tamao Nakamura's headshot

Tamao Nakamura

Ayako Wakao's headshot

Ayako Wakao

Jirō Tamiya's headshot

Jirō Tamiya

Masayuki Mori's headshot

Masayuki Mori

Professor Shiraishi
Taketoshi Naitō's headshot

Taketoshi Naitō

Eiji Funakoshi's headshot

Eiji Funakoshi

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