
The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...
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Cast

Shoji Nakayama
Tokusuke Kosaka

Shigeru Amachi
Staff Sergeant Tsuneyoshi
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Tadayoshi Takayama
Masaru Kodaka
MP Corporal Karita

Shuntarō Emi
Yatarô Kimizuka
Toshio Hosokawa
MP Sergeant Major Hagiyama
Junko Ebata
Shino Kashima
Namiji Namiura
Taeko Kamoshita
Akiko Mie
Yuriko Ito

Katsuko Wakasugi
Kiyoko Kashima
Masao Takamatsu
Fujio Murakami
Kaneda
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