Fall Guy

Ginshiro (Morio Kazama) is a film star whose reputation is slipping while a newcomer, Tachibana (Daijirō Harada), climbs past him, and he wants his pregnant mistress Konatsu (Keiko Matsuzaka) out of the picture. So he talks his friend Yasu (Mitsuru Hirata) into marrying her, and Yasu takes work as a stuntman to pay the rent. Kinji Fukasaku, working from Kōhei Tsuka's play, keeps the story in the cramped, scuffed corners of a film set.