A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. 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.
Screenplay: Kaneto Shindō, Yoshikata Yoda
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Producer: Kiyoshi Shimazu, Hisao Itoya
Director of Photography: Tomotarô Nashiki, Kōhei Sugiyama