Both movies are show the courtroom and trial of women accused of killing a family member. In "Women's victory" Kinuyo Tanaka is a lawyer defending a woman who killed her baby in a moment of madness and despair. The prosecutor says that laws are laws and must be interpreted as such; Tanaka argues that laws have to be contextualized in the broader scope of society and she places blame for the murder on the failure of the Japanese government to look after the sick and injured (the accused's husband worked in a munitions factory during the war, was injured, and the family was driven into bankruptcy because he didn't get proper compensation).
