Momoe Yamaguchi
Kiriko Yanagida
Tomokazu Miura
Keiichi Abe
Rentaro Mikuni
Kinzo Otsuka
Hiroshi Sekiguchi
Masao Yanagida
Haruko Katou
Yoshiko Otsuka
Izumi Hara
Kiku Watanabe
Renji Ishibashi
Takeo Yamagami
Ryūnosuke Kaneda
Lawyer Hyodo
Miyuki Kojima
Nobuko Ehara
Akiko Koyama
Michiko Kono
Shigeru Kōyama
Editor Tanimura
Yūsuke Natsu
Kenji Sugiura
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
