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

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.