Drama ·Mystery · Japan · 1967 · 1h 25m

Night Trap

夜の罠

Director

Cast

Ayako Wakao as Aiko Manabe Masaya Takahashi as Akiya Manabe Masahiko Naruse as Toshiro Matsuya Kōji Nanbara as Jiro Morito Eiji Funakoshi as Shintaro Baba Yūzō Hayakawa as Fumikichi Hayashi

Crew

Jōji Ohara — Director of Photography Shoji Sekiguchi — Editor Kazuo Funahashi — Screenplay Cornell Woolrich — Novel Hiroaki Fujii — Producer

Synopsis

A woman's desperate attempt to prove her husband's innocence after he has been sentenced to death for the murder of his mistress. She tracks down four men in the victim's life, one of whom she suspects may be the real murderer, and systematically destroys them. In the end, her obsession becomes madness and she has ruined her own life along with her victims' lives to save her philandering husband.

Key Collaborators

Sōkichi Tomimoto Director Jōji Ohara Director of Photography Shoji Sekiguchi Editor Kazuo Funahashi Screenplay Cornell Woolrich Novel Hiroaki Fujii Producer

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