Tora ni Tsubasa (2024)

Japan’s first school to teach law exclusively to women was established in 1929. The women gathered there had something about them that could not fit Japan of that era. Inotsume Torako was one of these women. At the schoolhouse that people unkindly called the witches’ club, they studied law to pave their own way.

In 1938, the country’s first female lawyers emerged from among the school’s graduates. As one of them, Torako attracted attention and was admired across Japan. Despite triumphantly coming out into the world as lawyers, the country soon plunged into war. The law should have allowed them to go out into the world, but the places where the law could be used were rapidly disappearing.