Tatsuya Mihashi and his wife, ex-prostitute Michiyo Aratama are down to their last 60 yen. They go to the gates of Tokyo's red-light district and hesitate. She gets a job as a bar girl, and he as a soba delivery man, but she wants better things, and and so....
There is discussion of recently enacted blue laws, but there are always ways around those, and the world is full of men with extra money and women who want nicer things, no matter how they may get them Miss Aratama's employer has been waiting for four years for her husband to return to her and their two sons; but why should any man walk into that situation when the world is full of willing women? Certainly the verge of Asakusa is no place to seek virtue.
Yûzô Kawashima's film offers a bleak view of the 'new' Japan, filled with the same people who made the old one. Even should these two find redemption, what chance have others?
There is discussion of recently enacted blue laws, but there are always ways around those, and the world is full of men with extra money and women who want nicer things, no matter how they may get them Miss Aratama's employer has been waiting for four years for her husband to return to her and their two sons; but why should any man walk into that situation when the world is full of willing women? Certainly the verge of Asakusa is no place to seek virtue.
Yûzô Kawashima's film offers a bleak view of the 'new' Japan, filled with the same people who made the old one. Even should these two find redemption, what chance have others?