Rich industrialist Imai wishes to marry his elder daughter Kyoko off to Aoki, who he sees as the ideal candidate to take over his business. Kyoko, however, has different ideas and prefers the rugged but poor Soichi to Aoki's goody-two-shoes. Her stepsister Minako, however, already has her eye on Soichi, and becomes madly jealous when she spies the two in a passionate embrace during a family hunting trip.

That night, Kyoko decides to confront her father, obstinately refusing to marry Aoki and dropping the bombshell that she is pregnant with Soichi's child. She is banned from the family, but seconds after she leaves the room, the old Imai drops dead, poisoned, so the police discover, with cyanide in his whiskey.

All evidence points toward Kyoko, who is sentenced to death despite her insistent claims that she is innocent. When she goes on the lam after a prison break with a cellmate, she realises that in order to prove her innocence, she has to team up with the fiancé she rejected.

DIRECTED BY: NAKAGAWA NOBUO

STARRING: Miyuki TAKAKURA, Tatsuo TERASHIMA, Yoichi NUMATA, Keinosuke WADA

1969 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - B&W - 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 79 MINUTES