Noir entry from Nagisa Oshima, whose people tend not so much to be greedy as they are desperate and lonely, forced to decide between several bad choices. Here a young tutor kills a man for the girl he loves, who goes on to marry someone else. A corrupt businessman witnesses the crime, then blackmails the tutor into looking after an embezzled fortune. The young tutor decides to blow the loot, knowing he’ll get killed eventually, which is fine with him, because he doesn’t want to live; he goes on a suicidal spending spree with women who either have problems of their own or can’t respond to him. Money not only doesn’t buy happiness; it creates pain, anguish, digs him deeper into the black psychological hole from which he can’t escape. Everyone in the movie is trapped with desires that can’t be realized — an interesting precursor to Oshima’s 1976 “In the Realm of the Senses,” the porniest art film of all time, which is basically about the pursuit of an orgasm that ends in death.