The Graceful Brute (Elegant Beast)
1962 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan
The original story of amazingly greedy people with cheat, embezzle and corruption. It's all set in this little apartment of the Maeda family. The son's taking money from the talent agency that he's working for. But the money's somehow missing. Who's taking it? Parents, who act like they're poor, seem to be hiding something. Or is that the daughter, the writer's mistress? Maybe the tax man, who was helping the agency to evade a tax? The singer looks like he lost so much money, too.
Direction Yûzô Kawashima
Cast Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi · Yuko Hamada · Yûnosuke Itô · Hisano Yamaoka · Manamitsu Kawabata · Shoichi Ozawa · Hideo Takamatsu · Kyû Sazanka · Chocho Miyako
Soundtrack Sei Ikeno
Screenplay Kaneto Shindô
Cinematography Nobuo Munekawa
Original title Shitoyakana kedamono
6.8
32 votes (FilmAffinity)
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