A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the
Japanese version of Cyrano de Bergerac, a poetswordsman with a huge nose who loves a woman who loves another Ignoring his true feelings, he helps them get together
Machiko and Haruki are not allowed to meet When at last they find each other, Haruki has to part for Europe
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol