![Jukichi Uno](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/b0L9sxQ6p1SEphYyuORPJ5ZRlOk.jpg)
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.