 This controversial, ground-breaking film set in in 1960 s Tokyo, tracks a handsome student in love with his theology professor s daughter. After attending his teacher s vivid lecture on Hell in various religions, the sensitive collegian s life spirals downward. Riding with an irresponsible fellow student, they run down a drunken yakuza, staggering on a dark side road, but keep going. The yakuza s mother and his b-girl moll swear vengeance.