Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth destined for Buddhist priesthood; it concluded with their separation.
사요코는 아버지가 거둔 오노와 결혼은 약속했지만, 오노의 학업 때문에 두 사람의 결혼은 미뤄지고 있다. 한편, 고노가의 장남 킨고는 출세나 금전에는 별 관심이 없는데, 계모는 자신과 딸 후지오를 생각해 여러 가지 방법을 모색한다. 후지오는 이복 오빠 킨고의 친구이자 예비 외교관 무네치카와 정혼한 사이다. 그러나 후지오 모녀는 무네치카가 성에 차지 않고, 후지오는 영어 선생인 오노와 결혼하려는 계획을 세운다. 학업을 핑계로 확답을 미루던 오노는 후지오 때문에 결국 사요코에게 파혼을 선언한다. 일본의 문호 나쓰메 소세키가 쓴 첫 번째 신문연재소설을 각색했다.
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.
An old potter despairs of having only two daughters and no son, hoping his apprentice will one day bring him an heir. The apprentice meets the eldest daughter but is disgusted by her. He decides to marry the younger daughter, who is in love with another man.
