Hiromi Kurita

Miho et Ryuzo, un couple adultérin, tente de s’enfuir, mais ils sont rattrapés par Unpei, mari de Miho et frère de Ryuzo. Il tue Ryuzo et laisse Miho agoniser. Alors que celle-ci meurt et va en enfer, elle donne naissance à une fille, Aki. Shima, la femme de Ryuzu, ne peut se résoudre à l’élever, et elle l’échangera avec un autre enfant.

Une jeune Japonaise, accompagnée de sa future belle-mère, débarque à Okinawa à la recherche son frère.

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainland yakuza tries to take over; the local yakuza tries to compete. Now sides are drawn among the local yakuza guys who used to be best friends since their childhood, and brother fights brother. It results in the biggest yakuza war in Okinawa.

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.

Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerage. Choromatsu is partnered with Umekichi, whom he calls "big brother," in this business. They live on the second floor of the aka-chochin (red lantern) owned by Takeko, where boys and girls who were abandoned at the abandoned children's temple on Mukojima also live together, making up a family of people who are not related to each other.

Le monde des adultes vu par une lycéenne dans la vallée entre l'école et la maison après l'école, et le poison étincelant que seule une fille de cet âge possède, se répandent peu à peu dans le monde des adultes.