A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.

Director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Cast: Machiko Kyō, Junko Kano, Tamao Nakamura, Ayako Wakao, Jirō Tamiya, Masayuki Mori, Taketoshi Naitō, Eiji Funakoshi

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.