

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

Ineko Arima
Shizuko

Fumio Watanabe
Nishida

Tatsuya Nakadai
Joe

Tomo'o Nagai
Okada

Keiko Awaji
Yasuko, Okada's Wife

Asao Sano
Sakazaki

Seiji Miyaguchi
Kin

Isuzu Yamada
Mikiko, Landlady
Sue Mitobe
Mihide

Eijirō Tōno
Kurihara

Toyo Takahashi
Kurihara's Wife

Nakajirō Tomita
Yamaguchi
Chisato Kasuga
Ayako

Kin Sugai
Mother
Kanji Ōsugi
Yasui

Natsuko Kahara
Yasui's Wife

Yōko Katsuragi
Sachiko, Joe's Girlfriend

Masao Shimizu
Kuroki
Shojiro Ogasawara
Husband

Eiko Miyoshi
Procuress