The Adulteress
Night Drum (original)
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital punishment.
Starring Rentaro Mikuni, Ineko Arima, Masayuki Mori, Sumiko Hidaka, Keiko Yukishiro, Tomoko Naraoka, Emiko Azuma, Kikue Mōri, Shizue Natsukawa, Mannosuke Nakamura
Watch "The Adulteress" on Criterion Channel released in 1958. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 7.3 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.