
127 minutes
9/11/1982
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...

Kaori Momoi
as Kumako Onizawa

Shima Iwashita
as Ritsuko Sahara

Takeshi Kaga
as Katsuo Toyosaki

Akira Emoto
as Shigekazu Akitani

Kyoko Maya
as Sakie Kataoka

Kensaku Morita
as Yoshiro Fujiwara

Noboru Nakaya
as Fukutaro Shirakawa

Takao Itō
as Tetsuro Kataoka

Taketoshi Naitō
as Judge Yazawa

Akira Nagoya
as Iwasaki

Nenji Kobayashi
as Prosecutor Munakata
Shogen Nitta

Jiro Kawarazaki
as Detective Kobayashi

Yasukiyo Umeno
as Chief Detective Asano
Sadao Mizutani
as Katsuyuki Shimada
Toshikatsu Tango
as Muneharu Shirakawa

Kiyoshi Yamamoto
as Director of the Criminal Affairs Division

Daisuke Iijima
as Detective Sasaki
Yoshio Ōmori
as Tokuro Shirakawa

Akiji Kobayashi
as Chief of Police, Ishihara
Kinji Omino

Go Endou
as Forensic officer
Hiroshi Kamiyama
as Bar association executive
Miyoko Nakamura
as Shirakawa Family Relative
Yoko Shioya

Yasuko Beppu

Tetsuo Morishita
as Traffic police officer
Shintarô Mishima
Takeshi Mikami
Kazuo Iwaki

Sōnosuke Oda
Hideaki Komori
as Police station reception

Taku Kido
as Reporter
Akihiko Hanyû
as Akiya's colleague reporter
Jun Kashima
as Associate Judge

Eitarō Ozawa
as Professor Anzai

Tatsuo Matsumura
as Masao Harayama

Norihei Miki
as Tamotsu Kinoshita

Tanie Kitabayashi
as Harue Shirakawa

Tetsuro Tamba
as Kanetaka Okamura

Isuzu Yamada
as Tokie Horiuchi