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、问西一个夜鹰、问西一个卖糖人、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。
回复 :台湾老兵刘燕生（凌峰 饰）到上海，寻找自己失散几十年的妻子乔玉娥（卢燕 饰）和从没见过面的儿子。乔玉娥当年和刘燕生失散三年后，和陆善民（徐才根 饰）组成家庭并生有两个女儿。刘燕生了解到乔玉娥和丈夫情感不好，就希望能带乔玉娥和他一起到台湾生活，并承诺拿出自己一生的积蓄，来补偿乔玉娥的丈夫和这个家庭的子女。但立刻引发这个家庭的剧烈震荡，激烈的争吵使几十年的亲人团聚变成了彼此的再次伤害，直到陆善民脑溢血生命垂危……乔玉娥无法抗拒分离的命运再次降临，只好在几十年前相同的上海码头，再次送走自己深爱的刘燕生……
回复 :1979年夏，上海。一天深夜，邮电所内公款被盗，公安人员赶到现场发现，公共汽车售票员林蔷（肖雄 饰）倒在血泊之中，随既送医院抢救。醒来的林蔷面对公安人员的讯问一言不发，似有难言之隐，这给侦破工作带来很大困难。上官剑（黄中秋 饰）在走访中发现，肖湘（史钟麒 饰）、范竹（韩炳杰 饰）二人和林蔷关系不一般，但很快排除了情杀可能。通过细致的排查摸底，上官剑了解到林蔷和肖湘在教育弟弟林尧（宝珣 饰）问题上时有争论，他决定攻心为上，打开林蔷的心结。最终，林蔷向上官剑诉说了一切。原来，正是她一昧的纵容和娇掼，使自己的亲弟弟走上犯罪道路......
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回复 :Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be an insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity she chairs for a stock tip. When she finds the money has been lost, she desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation. When her husband's long-awaited business deal finally materializes, she desperately tries to withdraw from their agreement by replacing the money. Angered and disappointed with her resistance to his advances, he uses a branding device to mark her shoulder as his property. Feeling violated, Edith shoots him in the shoulder and leaves. In order to protect his wife's reputation, Richard confesses to the crime and faces trial for attempted murder. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
