純愛物語 Story of Pure Love

★ 臺灣首映 Taiwan Premiere
★ 1958 柏林影展 最佳導演 1958 Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival
★ 1958 日本藍絲帶獎 最佳導演 1958 Best Director, Blue Ribbon Awards

戰後日本，意外機緣下，青少年貫太郎從一群太保手中，搭救了落難的青少女美津子，兩人相知相惜，卻分別被送往了不同的少年感化所。儘管心繫彼此，但無情命運將之分離，離開感化院後，貫太郎前往工廠工作，看似將要步上生活正軌，卻在此時收到美津子失蹤的噩耗。數年前，原子彈在廣島被投下所造成的創傷，仍在他們身上與心中隱隱作痛……。

日本「社會派」名導今井正傳世之作，由中原瞳及岡田英次共演，以一段少男少女的青春戀曲，銳利描繪戰後日本的道德荒蕪，青年心靈無所依循、結黨犯罪，並逐步連結至日本原爆受害者遭受歧視，以及治療困難、經濟困頓的社會處境。電影並未直擊戰時畫面，但戰爭對人民的死亡陰影卻久久不散，瀰漫於影像，在與青春戀情的無垢美好對照下，更加倍化作深刻迫切的窒息感，足見電影之社會觀察力道與人文關懷精神，堪為代表。

Story of Pure Love is set in postwar Japan, a time of social upheaval and economic hardship. It follows two impoverished youths, Mitsuko and Kando, who rebel against a rigid and unforgiving society in their desperate quest to stay together. As societal outcasts, they survive on the margins—living as petty thieves and low-wage laborers, unable to find stability or acceptance. Their love, pure yet tested by relentless adversity, becomes their only refuge. The film powerfully depicts their struggles within Japan’s reformatory system and the growing despair brought on by Mitsuko’s worsening illness, capturing a haunting portrait of love and resistance amid the ruins of a recovering nation.