
A Place in the Sun(1951)
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.


Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.

Jirō Tamiya
Kenichiro Ishizuka

Ayako Wakao
Namiko Kawashiro

Keizō Kawasaki
Seizo Kawashiro

Kyōko Enami
Emi Aoyama

Kyôko Kishida
Yoko Saijyo

Eitarō Ozawa
Daisaku Osone

Jōtarō Senba

Yūzō Hayakawa

Takashi Nakamura

Shizuo Chūjō
Love and Greed is a crime, drama, romance film released in 1964 exploring themes of based on novel or book, businessman, corporate take over, nightclub owner, entrepreneur, hostile takeover. Directed by Yasuzō Masumura, it stars Jirō Tamiya, Ayako Wakao, Keizō Kawasaki. Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.
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