A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.

插話式的故事，講述的是一對中年夫婦日久生厭的故事。

成濑在1955年的《浮云》之后便十分彻底的描绘容易受男性牵制的被动女性。他想要拍摄更坚强一些的女人。这部电影被认为是展示了完全僵化的家庭系统。

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

1948 film by Akira Kurosawa