A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romance of Yushima.
Oryu
Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido, Kenji attracts Ohama, who is travelling to Hokkaido to open a bar. When Kenji visits the bar, he chases away a sailor who was hassling a shy girl, Ofuji, which makes Ohama jealous.
Shôkiku's mother
키쿠에는 자신을 희생해서 아들 요시오를 홀로 키우지만 요시오는 언제부터인가 게이샤인 어머니를 부끄러워하며 나쁜 무리들과 어울리기 시작한다. 그를 사랑하는 아름다운 게이샤 테루기쿠는 갱 멤버로부터 그를 구출한다. 그러나 부모의 가난으로 자신의 누이동생이 팔려 갈 운명에 처하자 돈을 벌기 위해 그의 곁을 떠난다.
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
