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Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
- genus: Drama
- Studio: TOHO
- keyword: based on novel or book, slum, love triangle, landlord, landlady, jidaigeki, edo period, philosophical, class struggle, slum dwellers, landlady tenant relationship, sisters love same man
- cast: 三船敏郎, 山田五十鈴, 香川京子, 二代目 中村鴈治郎, 千秋実, 藤原釜足