The Scarlet Camellia
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Yoshitaro Nomura
Shima Iwashita
Yoshi Kato
Sachiko Hidari
Takahiro Tamura
Yunosuke Ita
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A fire at the Edo villa of merchant Kihei Musashiya yields three bodies thought to be Musashiya, who had been ill with tuberculosis; his wife, Osono; and their only daughter, Oshino. Six months later, a musician, notorious as a ladies' man, is found stabbed to death with a silver hairpin; beside his body is a scarlet camellia. Soon another murder takes place under identical circumstances. The victim this time is a doctor who had become wealthy treating women who dared not go to legitimate physicians. On a tip from a police informer, Officer Aoki trails a female suspect, but as he is convinced that she is innocent he does not arrest her. Meanwhile, another murder occurs, and Aoki's suspicions about the girl are again aroused. He learns that the girl is Oshino, Musashiya's daughter, and that the corpse assumed to be hers was that of Kikutaro, one of her mother's lovers. After setting fire to the villa, Oshino, to avenge her father, killed the men with whom her promiscuous mother had affairs. Oshino eludes capture and next murders a teahouse handyman who had supplied many of her mother's lovers. Oshino intends to kill one more man before she surrenders to the police, but she cannot bring herself to stab him when she remembers that her mother had once said that he was Oshino's real father. Oshino gives herself up, satisfied that she has gained revenge. She feels remorse, however, when she learns that her real father's wife has hung herself.
Director
Yoshitaro Nomura
Cast
Shima Iwashita
Yoshi Kato
Sachiko Hidari
Takahiro Tamura
Yunosuke Ita
Shoichi Ozawa
Ko Nishimura
Eiji Okada
Go Kato
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Released in Japan in 1965 as Goben no tsubaki.
