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Professor Anna Barker will discuss the film after the screening as a capper to the 100 Days of Dostoevsky's The Idiot"Rewarding drama with outstanding events and location photography of Hokkaido."—Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television
In post-World War II Japan, childlike veteran Kinji (Masayuki Mori) suffers from post-traumatic stress-induced seizures, and, after treatment at a mental health institution in Okinawa, he returns to his hometown. There he meets and becomes romantically involved with two women, Taeko (Setsuko Hara) and Ayako (Yoshiko Kuga). Another man, Denkichi (Toshirô Mifune), is passionately in love with Taeko, too. When Kinji begins favoring Taeko, a violent conflict erupts between the two men.
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