Showa onnamichi: Rashomon

A powerful nobleman's wife is unable to bear him an heir. He takes a mistress who becomes pregnant. When she gives birth to twins. an assassin is hired to kill both mother and baby girl, as only a male heir is required. The assassin falls in love with the woman and saves her life. She goes into hiding, taking her daughter with her. Twenty years later the girl and boy meet by chance. What follows is an avalanche of bloodshed and violence, as the girl sets out to take revenge on all those who destroyed her life. (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)