Name: The Inheritance
Genre: Drama, Foreign
Released: 1964
Duration: 1 min 47 s
Cast: Keiko Kishi, Misako Watanabe, So Yamamura, Minoru Chiaki, Tatsuya Nakadai

Brief Synopsis

Told that he has only six months to live, a millionaire industrialist instructs an employee to locate his three illegitimate children, intending to make one of them his heir.

Cast & Crew

Tatsuya Nakadai

Film Details

Also Known As

Karami-ai

Genre

Drama

Foreign

Release Date

Jan 1964

Premiere Information

Los Angeles opening: 24 Feb 1964

Production Company

Shochiku Co.

Distribution Company

Shochiku Films of America

Country

Japan

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 47m

Synopsis

Industrial magnate Kawahara learns that he has cancer and will die in less than 6 months. With only his wife as legal heir to his fortune, he implores his employees to locate his three illegitimate children. One by one, the lost offspring are brought home, but none prove worthy to receive the inheritance. Rejected by his wife, he forces Yasuko, his secretary who lives in his home, to become his mistress. Before his death, Kawahara is told that Yasuko is pregnant, and he wills the inheritance to the unborn child; but it is later revealed that she has become the heiress through a clever lie.