In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

• TOHO
• Takashi Shimura
• Toshirō Mifune
• Reizaburo Yamamoto
• Michiyo Kogure
• Chieko Nakakita
• Noriko Sengoku
• Shizuko Kasagi
• Eitarō Shindō