[Machine Translation] [Keisuke Kinoshita directed this immortal masterpiece starring Hideo Takamine. In 1928, Mr. Oishi is assigned to teach 12 students at a branch school on Shodoshima Island in the Seto Inland Sea. However, the children from the impoverished village do not go on to higher education as they had hoped, and soon they are swallowed up by the waves of poverty and war.