Onna Jimuin: Shikijo Seikatsu
The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.
The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.
Yasuko Utakawa
Otoko Chikamatsu
Ayako Ota
Taeko Nakazono
Kazuyo Ezaki
Yoshie Ono
Akio Kaneda
Toru Kimura
Keijirō Shiga
Koichiro Moriguchi
Sabu Kawahara
Sakaguchi
Kenji Shimamura
Waka Oda
Masayoshi Takigawa
Tetsu
The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.
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Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
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In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.