Tomohiro Akino

세이사쿠는 러일전쟁 시기의 한 가난한 농촌에 살고 있다. 그가 전쟁에 징집당하게 되자, 그의 아내 오카네는 남편을 정쟁에 보내지 않기 위해 무서운 음모를 꾸민다. 전쟁이라는 상황 속에서 사랑하는 남자를 위해 싸우는 여자의 소름끼치는 면모 속에 깃든 아름다움을 그렸다. 2차대전 전에 영화화 된 요시다 겐지로의 원작을 리메이크한 작품으로, 단순한 반전영화가 아닌, 섬뜩하면서도 아름다운 연애영화의 걸작이다.

미모의 유부녀 카와요 나미코는 나이트클럽의 젊은 경영자인 이시즈카와 만나 서로 끌리고 결국 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 이시즈카는 나미코의 남편인 세이조의 회사 주식을 매점해 탈취할 음모를 꾸민다.

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.