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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
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Wikipedia article
'Bitter End of a Sweet Night' is a 1961 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida.
Plot
Young shop clerk Jiro is eager to climb the social ladder, an aim for which he uses and manipulates everyone around him. He talks diner waitress Harumi into moving into his flat and introduces her to bar madam Soko, who pays him for his mediation. While Harumi is reluctant to Jiro's advances, she eventually agrees to Soko's plan to have refinery owner Hondo act as her patron and pay an apartment for her. Jiro has affairs both with Soko and Masae, the widowed daughter-in-law of foundry owner Oka, whom he intends to marry for her money. When Hondo buys Oka out of his heavily indebted company, Masae is left without any assets, and Jiro dumps her. After Harumi dies in a car accident with another lover, Jiro returns to Soko, who bluntly tells him that she will keep him simply as her gigolo and pet, to which he starts laughing hysterically.
Cast
* Masahiko Tsugawa as Jiro Tezuka
* Teruyo Yamagami as Harumi Nishimoto
* Sumiko Hidaka as Hisako Nishimoto, Harumi's mother
* Michiko Saga as Soko Mishima
* Jun Hamamura as Kenkichi Mishima, Soko's father
* Osamu Takizawa as Hondo
* Hiroko Sugita as Masae Oka
* Takamaru Sasaki as Tokusaburo Oka, Masae's father-in-law
Home media
'Bitter End of a Sweet Night' was released on DVD in 2013 as part of production company Shochiku's 'Yoshishige Yoshida DVD-Box Vol. 1'.
References
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