Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
Кирико обращается к известному адвокату с просьбой защищать её брата, обвиняемого в убийстве. Адвокат отказывает. Спустя время пути Кирико и адвоката вновь пересекаются, но в этот раз помощь нужна адвокату…
Тацуо Ихара всегда был неудачником. Он мечтает стать джазовым певцом, но кому он нужен в Японии. Его окружают одни гангстеры, и судьба Тацуо предопределена.
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
