A Hitchcockian narrative and noirish atmosphere characterise this effective, taut thriller, made the same year as the director's magnum opus, JIGOKU (Hell). Set in the present day, DEATH ROW WOMAN is at once a prison film, an innocent-man/woman-on-the-run story, a police procedural, and a family melodrama, that is equal parts Hitchcock, Samuel Fuller and Douglas Sirk. Rich industrialist Imai wishes to marry his elder daughter Kyoko off to Aoki, who he sees as the ideal candidate to take over his business. Kyoko, however, prefers the rugged but poor Soichi to Aoki's goody-two-shoes. That night, Kyoko decides to confront her father, refusing to marry Aoki and dropping the bombshell that she is pregnant with Soichi's child. She is banned from the family, but seconds after she leaves the room, her father drops dead, poisoned. All evidence points toward Kyoko, who is sentenced to death despite her insistent claims that she is innocent. When she goes on the lam after a prison break, she realizes that in order to prove her innocence, she has to team up with the fiancé she rejected.
3.5，警官後半段突然清醒，有點難以置信，越獄跟火車上都挺好看的，2016.06.09
日版惊魂记，结局过于草率了
78分钟的电影，感觉被剪去了一半，非常精彩的剧情，细思极恐的故事。虽然是很老的电影，感觉不差《肖申克的救赎》，情节类似现实版的聂树斌案，正义终有伸张得一天。
A Hitchcockian narrative and noirish atmosphere characterise this effective taut thriller made the same year as the director's magnum opus JIGOKU (Hell). Set in the present day DEATH ROW WOMAN is at once a prison film an innocent-man/woman-on-the-run story a police procedural and a family melodrama that is equal parts Hitchcock Samuel Fuller and Douglas Sirk. Rich indu...
太有失水准了，叙事表演都很差，越到后面的戏处理的越草率。
