四处流浪的少年矢吹丈（石橋正次 饰），在某贫民区遇到身患残疾的中年大叔丹下段平（辰巳柳太郎 饰）。丹下曾是一名战绩赫赫的拳击手，他敏锐地发现了矢吹身上不可多得的拳击天赋，于是坚持要将其训练成才。不过矢吹对拳击根本没有兴趣，整天和小朋友们挥霍胡闹，最终因斗殴被投入监狱。身陷囹圄的矢吹不改争强好胜的本性，可是极富天赋的他被实力强大、技术精湛的力石彻（亀石征一郎 饰）挫败。在此之后，他收心敛性认真练习拳击，指望有朝一日打败力石。不久，监狱在白木财团支持下举行拳击比赛，矢吹和力石即将迎来宿命的对决……
本片根据高森朝雄（即已故漫画家梶原一騎）和ちばてつや的同名原著漫画改编。

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?

A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.