1950 Akira Kurosawa masterpiece about a young painter named Ichiro Aoye (Toshiro Mifune) who meets a beautiful pop singer named Miyako Saijo. Soon they become victims of a nasty tabloid press devised to humiliate the girl who antagonized the press by being uncooperative. Mifune sues the press, but things develop into a wicked maze of twists and unexpected turns.