Film

Onna bengoshi chijoku hōtei

Director

Shūji Kataoka

Year

1998

The highly skilled lawyer, Kiriko Suzuoka, receives a request to defend Saki Arakawa, a woman arrested on suspicion of murdering her lover. Saki maintains her innocence, but Kiriko patiently continues to meet with her, irritated by her suspicious behavior. Finally, Saki's trial begins in court. The prosecutor is Kizaki, Kiriko's former lover. Mamiya, Kiriko's assistant who is infatuated with her, urges her to break up with Kizaki, but Kiriko insists she's not in love with a man. Then, one day during the trial, Kizaki visits Kiriko's office. Kiriko begins to undress and seduces him. What is Kiriko's true intention?