由黑泽明和小国秀夫导演改编自高尔基的同名戏剧。 一个工匠、日韩一个夜鹰、日韩一个卖糖人、一个花花公子、一个演员、一个小偷、一个朝圣者，以及其他许多生活在江户（现在的东京）末尾的没有阳光的唐楼里的人，与一个不可爱的房东和他的妻子交织在一起，形成了一个干巴巴的生活描写。 该片制作时间短，预算低，这对黑泽明来说是不寻常的。 东宝公司厌倦了漫长的制作周期和巨大的制作成本，让黑泽明亲自制作这部电影。 据说，黑泽明只做了一个露天布景和一个室内布景，经过精心排练，用几台摄像机同时拍摄。
戴佩妮
回复 :老朱（郎雄）被儿子晓生（王伯昭）从北京接到美国后，不但没享清福，反因与作家儿媳马莎（Deb Snyder）语言不通、在生活习性上有诸多差异，添出许多新愁（老朱对马莎的世界不好奇，马莎虽对老朱的世界好奇，却并不想作深入的理解，而是在好奇过后深深厌恶），倔强的老朱一片灰心（竟然在儿子家里尝到寄人篱下的滋味！），愤然离家出走。一次偶然事件令美国媒体对老朱的太极绝技称奇，晓生和马莎也在看过电视新闻后找到了老朱，但此时的老朱已明白，处境凄凉总好过晚节不保。
回复 :Scared of life and lacking the courage to be himself, Ludovico lives hidden away in his grandmother's old apartment. One night, the wickedness of the world goes to visit him in the form of Jack, a boy who is Ludovico's age but has the opposite character: hard, determined, perhaps criminal. The forced cohabitation of two human beings who couldn't seem more different from one another turns into an initiation rite to adulthood, the discovery of their true and respective personalities. And when the harsh reality that is mercilessly stalking them appears to present the bill, they will have to face it, bolstered by a new awareness and unhoped-for courage.
张启辉
回复 :The Polish doco for the BFI’s Century of Cinema distinguishes itself from all the others in the series by being the only one not to have any film critics, academics, directors, etc providing a commentary. Instead it takes the refreshing route of having ordinary people of all ages talking about what’s special to them about movies – so we get some old folks describing their first trip to the cinema when a lot of people didn’t even know what a film was, memories of what it was like to go to the movies as children, teenagers, and adults before, during, and after WWII, and especially the key scenes from films that have made lasting impressions upon them (not unexpectedly, Wajda’s KANAL strikes a nerve), which are shown in accompaniment, so that it becomes the interviewees who ultimately decide what’s shown in the doco. This kind of stuff is what the ‘100 Years of Cinema’ celebration is really about.
