Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company’s president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.Read More »
Nikkatsu’s big prestige film of the year, however, was Kiriro Uryama’s Foundry Town – a drama about the troubled family life of a bright, spunky teenage girl in a rough factory town. Urayama’s first film, w/ a script by Shohei Imamura, Foundry Town was ranked 2nd in the Kinema Jumpo magazine’s annual critics poll. Sayuri Yoshinaga, who played the lead, became a major Nikkatsu star, appearing in a series of teen romances with Mitsuo Hamada.Read More »