Black Lizard

Black Lizard (Akihiro Miwa) is a thief who loves beautiful objects and has set her mind on a diamond belonging to the jeweler Shobei Iwase (Jun Usami). To get it, she kidnaps his daughter Hina (Toshiko Kobayashi), and the detective Kogoro Akechi (Isao Kimura) takes the case. Kinji Fukasaku, working from Yukio Mishima's play, sets the two against each other with a girl's life as the price of losing.