[1][2] It was Masumura's debut as a director[3][4] and is regarded as a precursor of the Japanese New Wave.
[4][5][6] Kinichi and Akiko meet at a prison in Tokyo, where their fathers are detained.
Taking a liking to each other, they spend the day together, driving around on a borrowed motorcycle.
Unable to pay both the bail bond for her father and her mother's hospital bill, Akiko gives in to the persistent courting of Osawa, asking him to loan her the needed money in return.
[5] After the film's initial release, critic (and future director) Nagisa Ōshima, admiring it for its mobile camera and amoral plot,[10] noted that "a powerful irresistible force has arrived in Japanese Cinema.