Search All

Search by Title

Release year:
Production year:

Advance Search

Search by Cast/Staff

Advance Search

Search by Company/Association

Advance Search

Categories

Genres

Genres: Specify

1960

I ro ha ni ho he to

Of Men and Money

いろはにほへと

Release Date
May, 20th, 1960
Running Time
109 min
Genre
Feature
Color
-
Screening Format
-

[ Directed by ]

[ Cast ]

[ Staff ]

[ Production Company ]

SHOCHIKU

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

SHOCHIKU

[ Story ]

Matsumoto, a veteran detective, is vastly interested in the newly established Investment Society which is promising its investors a three percent monthly interest. His alert mind and years of experience on the force tell him that such high rate of interest cannot possibly be maintained. The Society, however, has expanded to where it boasts two hundred thousand members with an investment total of seven billion yen.
Amano, former insurance salesman, is chairman of the Society who with his associates built up this giant organizat1on in order to accumulate the people's savings and play the market ... the gains from which were to be distributed to the investors at a rate higher than bank interest. This was made possible by a loophole in the law.
The Society soon has branches in all major cities and Amano, who realizes the danger of a thorough investigation tries every method within his power to buy off Matsumoto; but living up to his nickname "mole" the police officer cannot be corrupted.
Everything progresses smoothly for Amano and his henchmen until! the New York Stock Exchange suddenly crashes and the assets of the Society decrease by three billion yen at a single stroke of fate.
As a last resort, Amano makes enormous "donations" to the leading political parties to have an Investment Bank Bill passed by the legislature. The politicians, however, are old hands at the game and accept the "donations" without making any efforts to pass the bill.
Shut off from political and economic assistance, the Society finally closes its doors and Matsumoto takes Amano away for questioning.

【Quoted from Unijapan Film Quarterly 1960 3.3】

[ Contact (International) ]

SHOCHIKU CO., LTD.
International Sales & Licensing

Togeki Bldg., 4-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8422
tel: +81-3-5550-1623
fax: +81-3-5550-1654
E-mail: ibd@shochiku.co.jp
http://www.shochikufilms.com

Relative Titles

The Refugee

The Refugee (1955)

Director
NOMURA Yoshitaro
Cast
SADA Keiji, KISHI Keiko

The lives of a couple consisting of a Japanese woman and a Chinese man are upturned by war in this film based on author Shirafuji Shigeru's novel. At the helm is Nomura Yoshitaro who directed Castle of Sand and Village of the Eight Tombs. During the...

Release Date
May, 3rd, 1955
I'd Rather Be a Shellfish

I'd Rather Be a Shellfish (2008)

Director
FUKUZAWA Katsuo
Cast
NAKAI Masahiro, NAKAMA Yukie

Original screenplay by Hashimoto Shinobu, a scriptwriter who participated in many Kurosawa Akira productions. The TV drama of the same title in 1958, for which he wrote the script, became extremely popular, and in 1959, he adapted it to a film as the...

Release Date
Nov, 22nd, 2008
Elegant Beast

Elegant Beast (1962)

Director
KAWASHIMA Yuzo
Cast
WAKAO Ayako, ITO Yunosuke, YAMAOKA Hisano

In this dazzlingly original work set entirely within a single public-housing apartment, we follow the Maedas, a family of four whose surface elegance belies their moral depravity, as they engage in one act of deception after another. Featuring an ori...

Release Date
Dec, 26th, 1962
Higan-Bana

Higan-Bana (1958)

Director
OZU Yasujiro
Cast
ARIMA Ineko, KUGA Yoshiko, SADA Keiji

Wataru Hirayama, sympathizes with both his old friend Shukichi Mikami, a former naval officer, and his daughter Fumiko who because of her father's stubbornness has run away from home and is living with her lover, a pianist, and works at a bar. But w...

Release Date
Sep, 7th, 1958