The young salesman Jiro is eager to climb the social ladder, a goal for which he uses and manipulates everyone around him. He convinces the restaurant waitress Harumi to move into her apartment and introduces her to the bar lady Soko, who pays him for her mediation. Although Harumi is reluctant to Jiro's advances, he eventually accepts Soko's plan to have her owner of the Hondo refinery as her patron and pay an apartment for her. Jiro has relationships with both Soko and Masae, the widowed step-daughter-in-law of the owner of the foundry Oka, whom he intends to marry for her money. When Hon...

The young salesman Jiro is eager to climb the social ladder, a goal for which he uses and manipulates everyone around him. He convinces the restaurant waitress Harumi to move into her apartment and introduces her to the bar lady Soko, who pays him for her mediation. Although Harumi is reluctant to Jiro's advances, he eventually accepts Soko's plan to have her owner of the Hondo refinery as her patron and pay an apartment for her. Jiro has relationships with both Soko and Masae, the widowed step-daughter-in-law of the owner of the foundry Oka, whom he intends to marry for her money. When Hondo buys Oka from her highly indebted company, Masae is left without any assets and Jiro leaves her. Jiro returns to Soko, who tells him in no uncertain terms that she will simply keep him as her gigolo and her pet, at which she starts laughing hysterically ...

Released: 1961.

Genres: Crime, Drama.
Countries: Japan.
Language: Japanese.
Video Color: Black and White