Voice without a Shadow Directed by Seijun Suzuki - 1958

I think this Japanese mystery owes a lot to American film noir - especially in regard to its reliance on bizarre coincidences to drive the story-line.

I'm posting this film because I really loved the performance of Yoko Minimida, who was also in the film The Crucified Lovers. She is great as the compassionate and trusting wife who helps a journalist determine who the real murderer of a low-life criminal is, thus freeing her husband.

Basically, as a telephone receptionist, the heroine of this film hears, by accident, the voice of a person who has committed murder while she is on the phone at her job, and recognizes the voice three years later as the voice of the new 'business' associate of her husband. Stuff starts rolling from there.

Watch the film here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPwX8KW5nMU