is a 1963 Japanese satirical comedy film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The screenplay by Toshiro Ide was based on the Naoki Prize winning novel by Hitomi Yamaguchi.

Plot

Eburi, an advertising department employee, promises two women's magazine editors to write a masterpiece of a magazine article while drunk. Once he sobers up, he decides to write an article using his own life and his family's history as a basis. Addressing his father's profiteering during the Pacific War, Eburi reflects upon postwar Japan and the legacy of the militarist regime. After winning the Naoki Prize, he gets drunk with two colleagues, lamenting the fate of the many young men who had been seduced to go to war and died.