Overview
Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid Oyasu. Shinzō and Oyasu set up a household near a soba shop in Fukagawa, but Shinzō struggled financially, turning to gambling and fighting, while Oyasu worked as a tea server in a theater, constantly harassed by a small-time gangster, Rikichi, for cigarette money. The only ones concerned about Shinzō and Oyasu were Shinzō’s sister, Omitu, and her dance teacher, Oyoshi. Later, Shinzō managed to get a job at another lumber dealer, but after a conflict with the detective Hansuke, who was also infatuated with Oyasu, Shinzō accidentally dropped lumber into the river and was fired. Unaware that Oyasu had borrowed money from a bar to repay the lumber dealer, Shinzō left to earn money in the Mito clan's crew quarters and ended up rescuing Rikichi from a dice game trouble.
Cast
- Minoru Ōki as 新三
- Yukiko Shimazaki as お安
- Yatarō Kitagami as 弟利吉
- Hiroko Nakagawa as おふみ
- Isuzu Yamada as お吉
- Eitarō Shindō as 柏屋万兵衛
- Ryōsuke Kagawa as 山城屋長左衛門
- Shizue Natsukawa as 女房おくら
- Keiko Yukishiro as 娘おみつ
- Atsushi Watanabe as 番頭久作