Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

• Shochiku
• Mariko Okada
• Hiroyuki Nagato
• Sō Yamamura
• Jūkichi Uno
• Eijirō Tōno
• Fukuko Sayo
• Sumiko Hidaka
• Teruo Yoshida