HBAD-353 Elegy of a Showa Woman: A daughter-in-law falsely accused of adultery is beaten in front of her husband. The wet, aching bed of a woman fallen to rape. 1943 Makoto Takeuchi

The daughter of a good family, Makoto, married into a military family and is subjected to domestic violence by her stern father-in-law. Her husband, unable to defy his father, turns a blind eye. The father-in-law suspects infidelity between his daughter-in-law and his son's friend and disciplines Makoto in front of her husband. Friends sympathize with Makoto, the wife resents her unreliable husband, and Makoto develops feelings for her kind friend, ending up soaking the sheets after an embrace. The husband reports the affair to his father, who, enraged…