
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...
Cast

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
Shogen Nitta
Unknown

Jiro Kawarazaki
Detective Kobayashi

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

Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Director of the Criminal Affairs Division

Daisuke Iijima
Detective Sasaki
Yoshio Ōmori
Tokuro Shirakawa

Akiji Kobayashi
Chief of Police, Ishihara
Kinji Omino
Unknown

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

Yasuko Beppu
Unknown

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

Sōnosuke Oda
Unknown
Hideaki Komori
Police station reception

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

Eitarō Ozawa
Professor Anzai

Tatsuo Matsumura
Masao Harayama

Norihei Miki
Tamotsu Kinoshita

Tanie Kitabayashi
Harue Shirakawa

Tetsuro Tamba
Kanetaka Okamura

Isuzu Yamada
Tokie Horiuchi
Crew

Yoshitarō Nomura
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Producer
Motomu Furuta
Screenplay

Seicho Matsumoto
Novel
Kazuo Ôta
Editor

Takashi Kawamata
Director of Photography
Shingo Matsubara
Assistant Director
Shigemi Sugisaki
Executive Producer
Matsutaro Kobayashi
Lighting Camera
Ryuji Matsumoto
Sound Mixer
Shinichi Harada
Sound Recordist
Kurodo Mori
Original Music Composer

Yasushi Akutagawa
Original Music Composer
Kyôhei Morita
Art Direction
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