DVD
The inheritance = Karami-ai
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Languages
In Japanese, with English subtitles.
Performers
Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sō Yamamura, Yusuke Kawazu, Mari Yoshimura, Minoru Chiaki, Misako Watanabe.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown. A bevy of lawyers and associates begin machinations to procure the money for themselves, resorting to the use of impostors and blackmail. Yet all are outwitted by the cunning of the man's secretary, in this entertaining condemnation of unchecked greed.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Norio Nanjō.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.