The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.

Cast

Nobuko Otowa

as

Sanae Takasugi

as

Taiji Tonoyama

as

Jun Hamamura

as

Ichirō Sugai

as

Jūkichi Uno

as

Eitarō Ozawa

as

Eijirō Tōno

as

Masao Shimizu

as

Masao Mishima

as

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