A Wife Confesses

Ayako Takigawa (Ayako Wakao) wants out of a marriage to Ryokichi (Eitarō Ozawa), a man who treats her cruelly, and she has found some tenderness with Osamu Koda (Hiroshi Kawaguchi). Then all three are roped together on a mountain, and a disaster leaves her facing a prosecutor, Kasai (Hideo Takamatsu), who accuses her of murder. Masumura keeps her at the center of the courtroom, where she answers for the rope that was cut.