Akira Kobayashi, Jō Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Hideo Murata, Saburo Kitajima, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shirō Ōsaka, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Midori Satsuki, Akira Ōizumi
The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying to live a real human life, violating the cruel laws of the passing generation.