Machiko Horikawa

1962 Japanese movie

Jiro Kokubu a été élu capitaine du club de Kendo de son université. Son objectif : remporter le prochain tournoi inter-universitaire. Sa méthode : imposer à son corps une discipline de fer et ne vivre que pour la victoire. Le cadet du club, Mibu, admire la vie spartiate de Kokubu et voit en lui un mentor. Mais le vétéran Kagawa critique l'intransigeance et l'idéalisme du capitaine. Pour lui, le kendo peut s'accommoder d'une vie sociale normale. Il affirme que l'ascèse de Kokubu est une imposture. Alors que le tournoi approche, la rivalité entre les deux hommes va tourner au drame…

Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.

Fujiko Niwa, a nurse, is in love with Dr. Suga, but fear clutches her heart when she overhears that Reiko, the Director's daughter, is coming to the hospital to see the man she hopes to marry.