Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair.

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.

金持ちの老人の財産を狙う内妻とその娘が、周囲の男たちを巻き込み、殺人の機会を狙う。人間の欲望を痛烈にえぐる渋谷らしいサスペンス・コメディ。

昭和初年的某个秋天，青年学生水原（石濱朗 饰）游山玩水，调养身心。在伊豆汤岛的旅途中，他邂逅了一名梳着旧式发髻的舞女阿薰（美空ひばり 饰），她恬美清新的模样在水原的心中激起淡淡的涟漪。许是命运的安排，水原又在接下来的日子里多次和舞女及其伙伴相逢，加上他有意识地接近，学生最终和舞女及其伙伴们熟捻起来。在此后的日子里，他和这群江湖艺人一同旅行，品味一段清纯爱恋的甜美，以及残酷生活现实的无可奈何。旅途中会结束，一份情感该如何安置……
本片根据日本作家川端康成的同名短篇小说改编，是该小说第2次被搬上银幕。

歌舞伎名代のひとつで、道成寺伝説をもとにした悲恋物語。