# Playful White Fingers (1972)

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**Original title**: *白い指の戯れ*
**Runtime**: 75 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Tōru Murakawa
**Written by**: Tōru Murakawa, Tatsumi Kumashiro
**Starring**: Ichiro Araki, Hiroko Isayama, Hajime Tanimoto, Yoko Ishido, Hiroshi Gojo, Yoshio Adachi

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You meet a pickpocket through the jailhouse visiting room. Then the cops take him away and a new girl slides into your life. Her ex is the pickpocket’s ex too and her other ex just walked out of prison.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, sexy

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