Based on the novel by Norio Nanjō. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962. Keiko Kishi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Sō Yamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yūsuke Kawazu, Mari Yoshimura.
Summary:
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown. A bevy of lawyers and associates begin machinations to procure the money for themselves, resorting to the use of impostors and blackmail. Yet all are outwitted by the cunning of the man's secretary, in this entertaining condemnation of unchecked greed.
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