In 1880s Japan, women's struggle for equality rages on. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
When Mizoguchi died in August , he was on the point of filming his first postwar comedy, Osaka Story . The script was realised in by director Kozaburo Yoshimura.