Zero Focus
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Plot
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, ad agency manager Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip to Kanazawa and doesn't return. With a pair of old photographs she found among his belongings, Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, first with the help of her husband's employer, later on her own. After a series of mysterious deaths, including a reception girl of the agency's Kanazawa branch, who turns out to be Kenichi's common law wife, and Kenichi's alleged suicide, all clues lead to Sachiko Murota, wife of a wealthy business partner of her husband. Teiko confronts Mrs. Murota and blames her for murdering Kenichi and everyone who knew of her past as a prostitute in the post-war era. Yet, as Mrs. Murota's confession reveals, the truth is even more complex than that.
Cast
- Yoshiko Kuga as Teiko Uhara
- Hizuru Takachiho as Sachiko Murota / Emmy
- Ineko Arima as Hisako Tanuma / Sally
- Koji Nambara as Kenichi Uhara / Masuzaburo Sone
- Kō Nishimura as Sōtarō Uhara
- Yoshi Katō as Gisaku Murota
- Sadako Sawamura as Sōtarō's wife
- Takanobu Hozumi as Mr. Honda
Awards
- 1961 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress (Hizuru Takachiho)[3]
Legacy
Seicho Matsumoto's novel was again adapted in 2009 by Isshin Inudō with Ryōko Hirosue as Teiko Uhara.[1]
References
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- 1961 films
- 1961 crime films
- 1961 drama films
- 1960s Japanese films
- 1960s Japanese-language films
- Films based on Japanese novels
- Films directed by Yoshitaro Nomura
- Films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto
- Japanese black-and-white films
- Japanese crime films
- Japanese drama films
- Films scored by Yasushi Akutagawa
- Films set in Ishikawa Prefecture
- Shochiku films
- Films based on works by Seichō Matsumoto