One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden.
This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble act of honor and virtue.But all that changed abruptly on February 7, 1873, when adauchi became prohibited as part of the Meiji Restoration’s goal to Westernize Japan.
평범한 회사원인 야마시타는 아내가 바람을 피운다는 익명의 편지를 받고 현장을 확인한 뒤 아내를 칼로 찔러 죽인다. 그 길로 자수를 한 야마시타는 형기를 마친 후 치바현에 작은 이발소를 차리고 우나기(뱀장어)와만 대화를 나누며 살아간다. 그러던 어느 날, 그는 연못에 뛰어들려는 케이코를 구해주고 그녀를 자신의 이발소에 두기로 한다. 이발소 일에 익숙해진 그녀는 야마시타에게 애정을 느끼는데...
혼잡한 도시 생활을 뒤로하고 23살에 어촌으로 들어와 참치잡이를 시작한 후사지로. 그는 나이가 든 뒤에도 딸 도키코와 함께 살며 거친 바다 생활을 계속하고 있다. 그런데 커피숍을 운영하던 도키코의 남자친구 슌이치가 어부가 되고 싶다고 하자 후사지로는 복잡한 고민에 빠진다. 무뚝뚝하고 거친 어부를 연기한 오가타 겐의 모습이 깊은 인상을 남기는 작품. ⓒ 1983 松竹株式会社 (한국시네마테크협의회)
The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned to human society.
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in search of agricultural land to the land of the pioneers in Hokkaido led a peaceful life. One day, one of the pioneers, Mikio Shimakawa's wife Yura, and her child Taichi are attacked and killed by a bear that cannot hibernate. To resolve the situation, Shimakawa goes against all odds and turns to Ginshiro, the most hated hunter in the village, for help. While Shimakawa was away from the village, Yura and his friends were holding a funeral, the bear attacked again...
