A Wicked Woman (Poisonous Woman Takahashi O-Den)
1958 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss. After the deaths of her second husband and daughter, Den moves to Yokohama. There she runs a casino for the vice boss. Her remorseful first husband and the disgraced policeman follow her. Den kills her former husband and the vice boss, but when she tries to escape with the casino takings, she's arrested and returned to Tokyo to stand trial.
Direction Nobuo Nakagawa
Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Jûzaburô Akechi · Tetsurô Tanba · Akira Nakamura · Gen Funabashi · Asao Matsumoto · Saburô Sawai · Arata Shibata · Minako Yamada · Den Kunikata · Fumiko Miyata · Keiko Ôzeki · Teruko Amano · Fujie Satsuki · Masao Takamatsu
Soundtrack Michiaki Watanabe
Screenplay Katsuyoshi Nakatsu · Shin Nakazawa · Kensuke Sawa
Cinematography Kikuzô Kawasaki
Original title Dokufu Takahashi Oden
6.3
26 votes (FilmAffinity)
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