Kinji Matsueda

Le film relate la vie de Sakae Osugi, anarchiste et militant japonais, assassiné par la police militaire durant les troubles qui ont suivi le grand tremblement de terre du Kantô de 1923. Le film expose ses relations avec trois femmes différentes : sa femme Yasuko Hori, la militante féministe Itsuko Masaoka, et sa dernière amante Noe Itō, auteur anarchiste et féministe assassinée en même temps que lui. La narration suit deux étudiantes, Eiko Sokuta et son amie Wada, qui découvrent en 1969 les idées politiques et le concept d'« amour libre » formulé par Ōsugi.

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.