Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
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| Art | Yoshirō Muraki | Production Design |
| Directing | Akira Kurosawa | Director |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yoshiko Samejima | Costume Design |
| Sound | Masaru Satō | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Akira Kurosawa | Editor |
| Production | Sōjirō Motoki | Producer |
| Production | Akira Kurosawa | Producer |
| Sound | Ichirô Minawa | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Fumio Yanoguchi | Sound Designer |
| Writing | Hideo Oguni | Screenplay |
| Writing | Akira Kurosawa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Maxim Gorky | Theatre Play |
| Lighting | Shigeru Mori | Lighting Technician |
| Directing | Yoshimitsu Banno | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Kazuo Yamasaki | Director of Photography |
