Masanobu Oki

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.

7 Août 1942. L'armée américaine envoie une grande flotte navale à l'assaut de Guadalcanal. Cela a marqué le début du Pacifique la contre-offensive de l'armée américaine. Guadalcanal devait être défendu jusqu'à la mort! Après six mois de bataille mortelle les munitions et vivres de la garnison japonaise étaient épuisés Souffrant de la faim, des blessures, le paludisme et la dysenterie amibienne, ils ont finalement été vaincus la contre-offensive de l'armée américaine qui a conquis Guadalcanal propagation d'île en île comme une avalanche:.. Bougainville, l'archipel Bismarck, Nouvelle-Guinée, Makin, Tarawa et enfin, en 1944, le 7 Juillet, les défenseurs de Saipan ont choisi le chemin de la "gyokusai". (Gyokusai = honorable mort plutôt que de se rendre, soit en luttant contre la mort ou le suicide.)

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.