23 October 1957 Drama, Crime 114 mins
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
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Fumio Watanabe as Nishida
Ineko Arima as Shizuko
Tatsuya Nakadai as Jo
Asao Sano as Sakazaki
Seiji Miyaguchi as Kin
Eijirō Tōno as Kurihara
Isuzu Yamada as Landlady
Tomo'o Nagai as Okada (uncredited)
Keiko Awaji as Okada's Wife (uncredited)
Natsuko Kahara as (uncredited)
Chisato Kasuga as (uncredited)
Yōko Katsuragi as (uncredited)
Kôichi Kitami as (uncredited)
Masao Kiyomizu as (uncredited)
Sue Mitobe as (uncredited)
Masaki Kobayashi Director
Takeo Tomishima Story
Ryōtarō Kuwata Producer
Chūji Kinoshita Original Music Composer
Yûharu Atsuta Director of Photography
Yoshiyasu Hamamura Editor
Ninjin Kurabu Production Design
Kazue Hirataka Art Direction
Michisaburô Yasuda Set Decoration
Yûji Nagashima Costume Design
Ikuo Kogiso Production Supervisor
Yûgorô Imai Assistant Director
Kintarô Yamamoto Set Designer
Hideo Nishizaki Sound
Mitsuru Kaneko Sound mixer
Shinichi Kishimoto Sound
Kuroi kawa Trailer
Japan 23 October 1957
United States 16 April 2013
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01 January 1957
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