خلاصه داستان : یک مرد متاهل توکیویی پس از دفاع از یک همکار مسن تر با بیکاری روبرو می شود.

Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. One slight, comic young man, Shinji Okajima, has no shirt under his jacket; he scratches at fleas and makes faces behind Omura's back. Jump ahead several years, Shinji is married with three children. He sells insurance, and on the company's annual bonus day, he protests when an older worker is fired. Shinji loses his own job as a result, and he and his wife must find ways to cope. Lassitude, pride, the demands and needs of young children, and relationships from bygone school days all play a part in the outcome of their struggle.

خلاصه داستان : همسر آن شب مردی ناامید با دختری بیمار تصمیم می گیرد برای کمک به او دست به سرقت بزند. او شروع به احساس پشیمانی می کند، که باعث می شود تصمیم خود را زیر سوال ببرد...

The film revolves around a desperate man who commits a crime in order to support his family, and the moral dilemma the policeman who tracks him down finds himself in.