19세기 말의 도쿄, 기쿠노스케는 가부키계 명가에 양자로 들어간다. 그러나 기쿠는 자신을 향한 후한 평가는 모두 아버지의 후광에 힘입은 것이며 등 뒤에선 모두 자신을 흉본다는 것을 안다. 집안의 유모 오토쿠만이 기쿠의 단점을 솔직하게 지적하고 격려한다. 그러나 기쿠가 하녀와 가까이 지내는 것을 염려한 집안에서는 오토쿠를 내쫓고 그녀를 사랑한 기쿠는 오토쿠와 함께 떠나게 되는데...
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film.
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Rikiya is blinded in a fight after falling in love with a courtesan. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, he goes back home to his sister Okiku, who become a prostitute to pay for his treatment.
선원이었던 늙은 남자는 미친 부인의 곁에 있기 위해서 그녀가 갇힌 병원에 자신의 정체를 숨긴 채 관리인으로 취직한다. 남편은 아내가 그들의 아이를 익사시키고 자신도 자살시도를 했다고 기억한다. 그러나 어느 날 그들의 딸이 자신이 아버지와 했던 약속에 관해 이야기하기 위해 병원으로 엄마를 찾아온다.
Nanjo Mikisaburo is a young samurai trying to restore his ruined family to its past glory. Enduring the contempt and disdain of high-ranking samurai, Mikisaburo devotes himself to the way of the warrior, mastering the literary and martial arts. His master Kurahashi Jupeita's daughter Misao feels for Mikisahuro who maintains his pride in the face of the arrogant samurai's scorn.
