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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, Sanae Takasugi, Taiji Tonoyama, Jun Hamamura, Ichirō Sugai, Jūkichi Uno, Eitarō Ozawa, Eijirō Tōno, Masao Shimizu, Masao Mishima, Yasushi Nagata, Kō Mihashi
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