桐壶帝（花川蝶十郎 饰）宠妃更衣遭到其他嫔妃妒嫉，为免更衣之子遭人陷害，桐壶帝将其降为臣属，赐姓源氏。 光源氏（花ノ本寿 饰）风流倜傥，文采横溢，但仕途坎坷。故而他自幼徘徊于红花绿草中，乐此不疲。与原配妻子葵姬的感情不和，他转而追求父亲的妃子藤壶（芦川いづみ 饰），光源狂热的追求换来藤壶感情上的痛苦。最终这不伦之恋令藤壶产下一子，桐壶帝则视同己出。期间光源氏四下追求各类女子，空蝉、夕颜、六条妃子等皆在他的生命中留下重要痕迹。进香之际，光源邂逅藤壶的侄女紫姬（浅丘ルリ子 饰），最终将年幼的紫姬带回府邸抚养，将其培养成心中理想的女性。 爱情虽然甜蜜，却仍要承受别离的痛苦，风光无限的光源氏更要亲自面对每一次的别离和失去…… 本片根据日本同名古典小说改编。

Tetsuji Takechi's third film is based on two short stories by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. The film depicts the lurid and violently erotic dreams of a writer, his wife and his sister, after having spent a night out drinking and visiting sex shows. It underwent extensive censorship before the government would allow it to be released. About 20% of the film's original content was cut and this footage is now considered lost.

英俊的日本青年崎山次郎（花ノ本寿 饰）沉默寡言，内心藏着莫大的羞耻感。他的母亲弥须（村田知栄子 饰）在美军横田基地附近经营一家妓院，阿姨由美（水町圭子 饰）则成为某美军高官的情妇，且以此为炫耀的资本。次郎每日里与妓女们作伴，见证着她们的痛苦，也见证了她们的堕落。在这混乱的环境里，只有一个名叫静江（紅千登世 饰）的女孩深深吸引着次郎的注意力。 某晚，次郎的朋友——自称共产党员的男子黑濑（沢律生 饰）怂恿次郎刺杀日常出入妓院的黑人军曹，为耻辱感所驱的次郎将刀刺向黑人胸口，由此也彻底改变了他的命运……

Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetic, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in which the woman undergoes various forms of sexual abuse, including rape and torture. When the artist recovers from the anesthetic, he finds clues showing that he may not have been hallucinating.

Made after Takechi had won an obscenity trial over Black Snow (1965), the film has been called "Takechi's personal message to Eirin."