Suisen Ichikawa

남편을 전쟁터에 보낸 후 큰 저택에서 딸 도모코를 키우던 이쿠요는 집을 나간다. 할머니의 손에 외롭게 자라던 도모코는 아버지마저 사망하자 갈 곳이 없어지고 만다. 결국 낯선 사람에게 맡겨져 게이샤 교육을 받으며 자란 도모코는 시간이 흘러 어엿한 게이샤로 성장하지만 동경의 한 유곽에서 어머니를 만나며 또 한 번 험난한 인생길에 들어선다.

The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the gang in an effort to shake down the tycoon for ten million yen. Upon joining forces, their first move is to rid themselves of the driver whose identity is known to the police because of a cap which he left behind at the scene of the crime. Upon obtaining the ransom money, the brothers murder the two kidnappers and go to the port city of Kobe. The younger brother, Takeshi, has fallen in love with the prisoner and refuses to allow her to be killed and they take her with them from one hideout to another.

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...