中山正男の原作を、「狐と狸」の菊島隆三と、内川清一郎が脚色し、「女侠一代」の内川清一郎が監督した、夫婦愛を描いたドラマ。撮影は「かた破り道中記」の太田喜晴。 1959年製作／104分／日本 配給：松竹 劇場公開日：1959年5月19日

The beginning of the Showa period. A town in the Kanto region. During the autumn festival, a car from Daihoji Senzo hit a child and left. Upon hearing this, Shogoro Chiba's boss tried to pay for the medical treatment of Kenbo, but Senzo ordered his child Gentaro to claim damages to the car and ruined Shogoro's gambling house.

The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around town scattering body parts in public areas.

剣の達人、三沢伊兵衛は、藩主から側室になるよう強要されていた家老の娘、妙を連れて脱藩出奔し、道場破りで金を稼ぎながら旅を続けていた。そんなある日、彼は藩がさしむけた剣客、大庭軍十郎と、互いの素性を知らぬまま賭け試合で対決することになるが……。山本周五郎の『雨あがる』を原作に、内川清一郎監督がダイナミックに描いた時代劇の秀作。

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.