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Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the other boy and the girl find they cannot forget him.
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A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
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대를 잇고자 아버지는 무남독녀 미치코를 보잘것없는 배경의 대학교수 타다오와 결혼시키고, 그를 데릴사위로 들인다. 전쟁에 휩쓸려 시간은 흐르고, 미치코는 선친의 유지를 받들며 가문을 지키려 한다. 그런데 이미 아내와도 소원해진 타다오는 학생들과도 거침없이 육체관계를 맺고, 아내의 친척 토미코와도 정분이 난다. 한편, 미치코의 사촌 츠토무가 귀향하는데, 미치코는 츠토무를 향한 감정을 억누르고, 그가 보내는 사랑을 부정한다.
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The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.
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In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
