THE WARPED ONES

Criminal and jazz aficionado Akira (Tamio Kawachi) and his prostitute girlfriend Yuki (Yuko Chishiro) are arrested when they are spotted fleecing foreigners in a jazz club by a reporter named Kashiwagi (Hiroyuki Nagato). In jail, Akira meets Masaru (Eiji Go) and on their release they and Yuki resume criminal activities. They spot Kashiwagi and his artist fiancée, Fumiko (Noriko Matsumoto), hit him with a stolen car and kidnap her. They take her to a remote beach where Akira rapes her while Masaru and Yuki fornicate in the ocean.

Soon after, the three rent an apartment with money earned from fencing the stolen car. Masaru and Yuki commit to starting a family, while he joins a yakuza gang, to the derision of Akira. Fumiko tracks Akira down and informs him that she is pregnant. Kashiwagi has become distant and haughty and she pleads with Akira for help. Akira arranges for Yuki to seduce Kashiwagi so that the couple might again be on equal terms. Masaru is killed by a rival yakuza. Yuki discovers that she too is pregnant but without Masaru's support she resolves to get an abortion and resume her prostitution career. Akira and Yuki meet Kashiwagi and Fumiko by chance at an abortion clinic where Akira reveals that each woman was impregnated by the other man, to the amusement of the former couple and befuddlement of the latter.

Akira and Yuki encounter Kashiwagi and Fumiko at an abortion clinic, where Akira reveals both women are pregnant by the other's partner, leading to amusement and confusion among the group.

The film’s ending leaves its characters entangled in the consequences of their chaotic passions, with paternity and relationships upended in a final, ironic twist. Rather than moral closure, Kurahara offers a tableau of bemusement and alienation, underlining the film’s portrait of postwar disconnection and youthful nihilism. The laughter and confusion in the clinic encapsulate the film’s subversive tone, refusing any easy redemption or resolution for these warped lives.