Details

Release year: 1960

Storyline

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

Top credits

Directors

Akira Kurosawa

Writers

Cast

Toshirô Mifune — Kôichi Nishi
Masayuki Mori — Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi
Kyōko Kagawa — Yoshiko Nishi
Tatsuya Mihashi — Tatsuo Iwabuchi

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Did you know

• The ideas for the film came from Akira Kurosawa's nephew, Mike Y. Inoue, who wanted to be a scriptwriter and was giving his scripts to his uncle. Kurosawa liked it and made suggestions, to which Inoue spent six months rewriting the script under the title "Bad Men's Prosperity." Kurosawa, along with several others, reworked it even more into the final version, though Inoue did not receive screen credit.

• Kyōko Kagawa wore both uneven shoes and a knee brace to help make her character's limp more believable and real.

• In a 1996 interview, Masaru Sato stated that his musical score for the film was his own interpretation of a 'big, evil corporate world' through the phrase he had always heard relating to the corporate world; "It's a jungle out there," which inspired him to "create a jungle-like atmosphere in the music" for the film.