

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
User score
36 votes

Released
October 23, 1957
1h 54m
Japanese

Fumio Watanabe
Nishida

Ineko Arima
Shizuko

Tatsuya Nakadai
Jo

Asao Sano
Sakazaki

Seiji Miyaguchi
Kin

Eijirō Tōno
Kurihara

Isuzu Yamada
Landlady

Tomo'o Nagai
Okada (uncredited)

Keiko Awaji
Okada's Wife (uncredited)

Natsuko Kahara
(uncredited)
Chisato Kasuga
(uncredited)

Yōko Katsuragi
(uncredited)
Kôichi Kitami
(uncredited)
Masao Kiyomizu
(uncredited)
Sue Mitobe
(uncredited)

Eiko Miyoshi
Yasushi Nagata
(uncredited)

Zeko Nakamura
(uncredited)

Masao Oda
Shojiro Ogasawara
(uncredited)