Kisses
(Kuchizuke)

Kinichi and Akiko met while visiting their respective fathers in prison. They decide to together on a motorcycle ride to the seaside. Akiko wants to sell her body to a man who is trying to seduce her, so that she can bail her father out of prison and pay for her mother’s hospital fees. Kinichi gives her a cheque he borrowed from his mother and kisses Akiko…
This is the first feature made by Masumura who studied cinéma at the Rome Centro Sperimentale. A forerunner of the 1960s Japanese new wave.