1962 | Japan | Fiction

Karami-ai (The Inheritance)

  • Japanese English 108 mins
  • Director | Masaki Kobayashi
  • Writer | Koichi Inagaki
  • Producer | Shigeru Wakatsuki, Masaki Kobayashi

STATUS: Released

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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 (Keiko Kishi), in this entertaining condemnation of unchecked greed.

Greed Betrayal Deception Corruption Noir
Film Organizations
The Criterion Collection
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