What Price Love

Set in the middle of the Edo period 16031867 this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend Okuma Shirokoya the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo todays Tokyo embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband Source httpsfestivalilcinemaritrovatoitenproiezioneshirokoyakomako