菊村到の同名小説を鈴木清順がセミ・ドキュメンタリー・タッチで描いた異色のアクション映画。勤勉実直な初老のサラリーマンが麻薬組織に買収され、麻薬密輸に関与してしまう。やがて、だまされていたことに気づいた彼は単身アジトに乗り込んでボスを射殺、アジトに火をつけ自らも炎の中に身を投じる。

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

1964 film by Shōhei Imamura

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.