Regie:
Yoshitarō NomuraScenario:
Masato IdeCamera:
Takashi KawamataActeurs:
岩下志麻, Kō Nishimura, Eiji Okada, Sachiko Hidari, Etsuko Ichihara, Shôichi Ozawa, Takahiro Tamura, 早川保, 加藤嘉, Toyo Takahashi, Akira Tani, Atsushi WatanabeSamenvattingen(1)
The year of Tenpo 5, at the midnight of a New Year's Day, a dormitory of Musashiya Kihei at the edge of Honjyo Shirakawa River was burned by a suspected case of arson, and three dead bodies were found. Based on the testimonies of employees that these bodies were recognized as a master Kihei, his wife Osano, and his daughter Oshino. Suffered by leukemia, Kihei had but a few days to live, and Oshino devoted herself to look after her father. But Osono did not care at all and she lived a debauched life. Late in autumn that year, notorious men died mysteriously one after another. Each of them was killed at a stroke with an ornamental hairpin, and a flower of Camellia was left at each scene. The murderer is supposed to be a young, beautiful and mysterious woman. Yoriki and Aoki, detectives of Hachobori are desperately scanning, and finally they reach an unexpected suspect. (Shochiku)
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