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A Design for Dying

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Calorie Rating: 155
Released: 1961-06-28
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Studios: Daiei Film,


Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.

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Cast

Machiko Kyō
Character: Shikiko Oba
Junko Kano
Character: Katsumi Tsubota
Tamao Nakamura
Character: Tomie Oki

Ayako Wakao
Character: Rinko Tsugawa
Jirō Tamiya
Character: Ginshiro Yashiro
Masayuki Mori
Character: Professor Shiraishi

Taketoshi Naitō
Character: Keita Nomoto
Eiji Funakoshi
Character: Hideo Sone
Kazuko Miyakawa
Character: Yoko Shirakawa

Hiromi Ichida
Character: Model B
Mitsuko Tanaka
Character: Waitress
Noriko Hodaka
Character: Nurse

Sumiko Hidaka
Character: Utako Ito
Kô Sugita
Character: Kurata
Hisako Takihana
Character: Kiyo, the maid

Chikako Hosokawa
Character: Kyoko Ohara
Ken Mitsuda
Character: Taizo Ohara
Chieko Murata
Character: Kaneko Yasuda

Kōichi Itō
Character: Administrative Manager Hirayama
Yasushi Sugita
Character: Kurata
Yūzō Hayakawa
Character: Hospital newspaper reporter A

Noboru Isogai
Character: Hospital newspaper reporter B
Kanji Matsumoto
Character: Hotel boy
Yūko Hamada
Character: Model A

Tomoko Miura
Character: Model C


Production and Crew

Toyoko Yamasaki
Original Story
Masaichi Nagata
Executive Producer
Kaneto Shindō
Screenplay

Jōji Ohara
Director of Photography