A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
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| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka | Editor |
| Directing | Nagisa Ōshima | Director |
| Camera | Takashi Kawamata | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Riichirō Manabe | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Hisashi Hosono | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Taizô Saitô | Costume Design |
| Directing | Toshirō Ishidō | Assistant Director |
| Lighting | Isamu Satô | Gaffer |
| Art | Hideo Mori | Production Design |
| Art | Kôji Uno | Production Design |
| Lighting | Toshifumi Takahashi | Lighting Technician |
| Art | Kintarô Yamamoto | Set Designer |
| Art | Seiji Ishikawa | Set Decoration |
| Editing | Sahei Sakamaki | Colorist |
| Sound | Shinichi Kishimoto | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Shûjûrô Kurita | Sound |
| Production | Tomio Ikeda | Producer |
| Production | Hitoshi Numao | Production Supervisor |
| Sound | Shûzô Horikawa | Sound Mixer |
| Writing | Nagisa Ōshima | Screenplay |
