Kôchiyama Sôchun
(Kôchiyama Sôchun)

In a seedy district of Edo, Sôshun Kôchiyama owns an inn where gambling is rife. To make up for her younger brother Hirokô’s mistakes, Onami, a young woman running a sake stall, has no choice but to sell her body. Hearing what she has to do, Sôshun Kôchiyama and his associate, wandering samurai Ichinojô Kaneko, decide to protect the two youngsters even at the cost of their own lives. Considered a masterpiece of Japanese cinema, Kôchiyama Sôshun is one of the three films made by film-maker Yamanaka Sadao.