Selling their souls in a cut-throat race for profit, the salarymen in Yasuzô Masumura’s dog-eat-dog vision of industrial Japan are as ruthless as lowly criminals. Laying bare the dirty tactics of corporate espionage, this visceral parable casts a shadow over the nation’s postwar economic miracle.

Dialing up the suspense of the whodunit genre to dizzying levels of baroqueness, Yasuzô Masumura’s chilling crime film invokes the deadly allure of money. Shot like an ornate maze with its canted angles and harsh geometries, a courtroom sets the stage for a taut battle between deception and justice.