保罗沃克尔

泷岛家的两兄弟年龄相仿，性格迥异。哥哥夏久（石原裕次郎 饰）风流倜傥，浪荡不羁；弟弟春次（津川雅彦 饰）则温柔腼腆，内向老实。某日，兄弟俩乘火车前往逗子度假，出站时遇见了美丽的少女天草惠梨（北原三枝 饰），春次登时为其所倾倒。不久，他们在乘船出海时再次邂逅游泳的惠梨，三个年轻人相谈甚欢，春次最终鼓起勇气邀请女孩参加他们的舞会。惠梨曼妙的舞姿成为当晚的亮点，所有男孩都目瞪口呆，连夏久也心有所动。又一天，夏久和一众好友在俱乐部歌舞时，看见惠梨和外国人翩翩起舞。张扬跋扈的他强吻惠梨，两人纠缠在一起。从此，泷岛兄弟和同一女孩的关系变得愈加微妙……

一个20多岁的女人几年来第一次回老家度假 她不仅遇到故人 而且还被迫处理未解决的感情

二战之后，日本街头呈破败景象。家庭主妇大和田和子（田中绢代 饰）一面等候参军的丈夫，一面苦苦维持家中的生活。然厄运如影随形，和子得到丈夫伤重身亡的噩耗，为了救治身患肺结核的幼子，她不惜出卖肉体，但不久儿子也病重死去。在此之后，和子与其所在公司的社长栗山（藤井贡 饰）相恋。栗山私下进行违法勾当，同时与和子的妹妹夏子（高杉早苗 饰）私通。得知一切的和子辞去工作，彻底沦为站街女。令她无法相信的是，丈夫的妹妹久美子（角田富江 饰）亦被骗堕落风尘，而夏子也没能找到期盼已久的幸福……根据板荣二郎的小说《女性祭》改编。

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.