Victory of Women

Name: Victory of Women
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Released: 1946

Kenji Mizoguchi

post-war legal reform motherhood and poverty women's rights infanticide judicial system

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Synopsis

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system.

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