A Wife Confesses

Snow chokes a mountaintop road. A woman’s gloved hand cradles a revolver. Inside the stranded car, one voice demands truth, the other begs for silence. Three days later, police find two bodies and a signed statement. No one asks why the gun was hers to begin with. A stark, sunlit Japanese noir from the early sixties.

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Yasuzō Masumura directed A Wife Confesses in 1961. See Yasuzō Masumura's full filmography, where to start with Yasuzō Masumura, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yasuzō Masumura.

A Wife Confesses was released in 1961 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 91 minutes.