Kaoru Nobe

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.

신슈의 여관에서 일하는 오후미는 여관 후계자인 겐키치와 사랑에 빠지고 만다. 아버지의 반대에 부딪힌 겐키치는 오후미와 함께 무작정 도쿄로 도망친다. 그러나 곱게 자란 도련님 겐키치는 돈 벌 궁리는커녕 얼마 지나지 않아 홑몸도 아닌 오후미를 내팽개친다. 남겨진 오후미는 홀로 아들을 낳고, 아이를 떠돌이 아코디언 연주자 요시타로에게 수양 아들로 내준다. 요시타로와 함께 떠돌이 생활을 하던 오후미는 순회공연을 갔다가 겐키치와 재회한다.