Toshiro Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from a patient's blood when he cuts himself during an operation. He rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation, treating himself in private and tormented by his conscience.
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Toshiro Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from a patient's blood when he cuts himself during an operation. He rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation, treating himself in private and tormented by his conscience.
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