愛と希望の街

Japan in the late 1950s: Masao lives in a poor district of Tokyo with his sick mother and his little sister. Apart from school, he has to care for the family’s subsistence by selling pigeons, which fly back to Masao from their new owners after a while. In spite of his good grades and the support from his teacher, the lack of understanding from his social environment for his precarious situation threatens to seal his fate. With his very first film, a ruthless accusation of Japanese class society, Nagisa OSHIMA displeased the head of Shochiku film studios, so that the film had only a limited run in theaters despite getting good reviews.