Zero Focus (ゼロの焦点, Zero no shōten) is a 1961 Japanese mystery film directed by Yoshitaro Nomura and is based on a novel by Seicho Matsumoto.[2][3]
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ゼロの焦点 | |
Directed by | Yoshitaro Nomura |
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Produced by | Ichinosuke Hozumi |
Starring | Yoshiko Kuga |
Cinematography | Takashi Kawamata |
Edited by | Yoshiyasu Hamamura |
Music by | Yasushi Akutagawa |
Production company | Shochiku |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 95 minutes[1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
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.
Seicho Matsumoto's novel was again adapted in 2009 by Isshin Inudō with Ryōko Hirosue as Teiko Uhara.[2]
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