1956 film

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns.
The film tells about the difficult relationship between the actors of the Japanese classical theater No, friendship, hatred and love…

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.