A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.

• Daiei Film
• Toshirō Mifune
• Miki Sanjō
• Takashi Shimura
• Kenjiro Uemura
• Isamu Yamaguchi
• Noriko Sengoku
• Chieko Nakakita
• Kenichi Miyajima