Woman

Toshiko does her best to keep to the straight and narrow, but when gangster Machida drags her along with him to Hakone she becomes fascinated with his nonchalance in the face of danger. Can Toshiko save him from his own worst impulses? THE LADY marks the start of Kinoshita’s experimentation with film techniques and genres and the winding hillsides, farms and streets become the perfect setting for an unlikely psychological thriller. Within the trappings of a melodramatic love story is a suspenseful narrative about a yakuza on the run and his unsuspecting lover. But the director uses conventions only to break free from them...