Synopsis:
A poor boy becomes friends with a rich girl. He has a pigeon which he sells, but since it is a homing pigeon, he can actually sell it over and over again. The bird becomes the symbol of his friendship for the girl as well, but in the end she has her brother shoot and kill it. This directorial debut of Oshima Nagisa immediately established the young filmmaker as the leader of the Japanese New Cinema in the sixties.. The unsentimental and harsh realistic style was vastly different from the melodramatic traditional of Shochiku Company, the studio who financed the film, at the time. Oshima suggested that there’s no compromise between the rich and the poor and class distinctions are closely linked to criminal tendencies.