The Hitchcock style narrative and black atmosphere are the characteristics of this effective and tense thriller, which was released the same year as the director's representative work "Hell". The story takes place today, and "The Dead Woman" is both a prison movie and an innocent escape story. It is a police program and a family plotline composed of Hitchcock, Samuel Fuller, and Douglas Thurk. Rich industrialist Imai hopes to marry his eldest daughter Keiko to Aoki, who he believes is the ideal candidate to take over his business. However, compared to Aoki's beautiful shoes, Kyoko prefers the rough but pitiful Soichi. That night, Keiko decided to confront her father, refused to marry Aoki, and revealed the explosive news that she was pregnant with Soichi's child. She was prohibited from reuniting with her family, but a few seconds after she left the room, her father was poisoned to death. All the evidence points to Kyoko, despite her insistence on claiming her innocence, she was still sentenced to death. When she escaped from prison, she realized that in order to prove her innocence, she had to cooperate with her rejected fianc é.
