Directors: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiru Mifune, Keiko Nishi
Year: 1963
In Kurosawa's HAMLET-like story of corporate scandal in post-war Japan, a young man attempts to use his position at the heart of a corrupt company to expose the men responsible for his father's death, who was was driven to suicide by jumping out of the seventh floor of corporate headquarters. His illegitimate son exchanges identity with an old friend in order to marry the handicapped daughter of the corrupt industrialist he holds responsible.
Comments: The moral clarity of Kurosawa's other films is much more subtle in this film. Very good performance by Mifune.
Recommended.
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