- A former aristocratic family faces financial hardship and their daughter is introduced to a nice man in the auto repair business, the hope being that a marriage might be of economic assistance to the family. The daughter's family finds it hard to accept this kind of idea and the young man is uncomfortable with the difference in their social standing. However, everything works out in the end and a happy marriage takes place.
- 这是第二次世界大战之后,导演黑泽明的第一部电影.以战时曾经引起轩然大波的京都大学教授龙川事件,鸠山文化部大臣军阀主义的盛行,而将鼓吹自由主义的京都帝国大学教授龙川开除,当时遭到京都帝国大学上下一致的反对。此外并以卓鲁格国际间碟事件做为背景,描写女主角幸枝于战争中所遭遇的种种,进而批判战争以及当时盛行的法西斯主义。片中后段描写决定独立的幸枝所遭遇的苦难,她跟随野毛之后,初尝爱情的幸福滋味,但好景不长,野毛由于暗地从事反战运动而终生入狱,幸枝也因此每天被特务逼问受尽屈辱。而担任此案件的检察官竟是当年的同学系川。幸枝被释放之后,回到野毛所深爱的故乡,与野毛的双亲一起渡日。日本在战败后,民主主义盛行,八木原教授又回到学校中,幸枝则决定从事农村文化运动。片中的幸枝并非日本过去的传统女性,而是经过战争及战争后的混乱期,终于找到自我,忠于自已意志的新时代女性。