A Lonely Gamble (1965)
孤独の賭け
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his proprietress is forced to turn to a successful businessman, owner of entertainment establishments and bars. But she has nothing to guarantee the return of the debt, and then she offers herself as collateral. A drama about the contradictory nature of human feelings.
- Date of release
- 1965-03-10
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Shinji Murayama
Casting
- Yoshiko Sakuma — Momoko Inui
- Shigeru Amachi — Teijiro Chigusa
- Chitose Kobayashi — Kyoko Nakagawa
- Reiko Ōhara — Mika Inui
- Michiyo Kogure — Tazuko Ogaki
- Asao Uchida — Junzo Higashino
- Kichijirō Ueda — Shinpei Akamatsu
- Kaneko Iwasaki — Nobuko Mori
- Tatsuo Umemiya — Toshihiko Takagi
- Junko Miyazono — Takako Higashino
- Mariko Nonaka — Suzuko Chigusa
- Akiyoshi Kasuga — Kenji Himuro
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