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.

casts

Mariko Okada

Hiroyuki Nagato

Sō Yamamura

Jūkichi Uno

Eijirō Tōno