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 : در سال 1944 ، در جنگ جهانی دوم ، دکتر کیوجی فوجیازیکی هنگام عمل جراحی در بیمارستان میدانی انگشت خود را با پوست سر برید و توسط بیمار خود سوزومو ناکادا توسط اسپیروکته آلوده می شود. بعد از آزمایش خون ، او متوجه می شود که به سفلیس مبتلا شده است ، اما داروی لازم...

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.