Naruko Mori (Kodansha Bunko Fu 66-5 Mitodoke Jin AKIZUKI Iori Jiken Jo)

[Machine Translation] In connection with the Minamihara family's buried treasure racket, a series of hole-diggers are killed one after another. Iori Akizuki, who is on duty to see to the truth, becomes suspicious of the sudden change of Senkichi, a poor young laborer who had been called a "kokuzushi" by a curtained rope a few days before, and begins a search. The film depicts the fate of the elder sister who has sunk into a world of hardship and the younger brother who has been tossed about by poverty.

南原家の埋蔵金騒動に絡んで、穴掘り人足が次々と殺される。真相の見届けにあたっている秋月伊織は、数日前に縄暖簾で「穀潰し」と罵られていた貧相な若い人足・仙吉の豹変ぶりを不審に思い、探索を開始した。苦界に身を沈めた姉と、貧しさに翻弄された弟の運命を描く。