A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
Yoshitarō Nomura
Director
Kaori Momoi
Kumako Onizawa
Shima Iwashita
Ritsuko Sahara
Takeshi Kaga
Katsuo Toyosaki
Akira Emoto
Shigekazu Akitani
Kyoko Maya
Sakie Kataoka
Kensaku Morita
Yoshiro Fujiwara
Noboru Nakaya
Fukutaro Shirakawa
Takao Itō
Tetsuro Kataoka
Taketoshi Naitō
Judge Yazawa
Akira Nagoya
Iwasaki
Nenji Kobayashi
Prosecutor Munakata
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