炎热夏天，日韩身心疲惫的青年刑警村上（三船敏郎 饰）结束了射击练习后，日韩登上拥挤难闻的公车回家，途中突然发现配枪被人盗走。他奋力追赶，却最终跟丢了目标。村上垂头丧气找到佐藤课长（志村乔 饰），请求解除他的职务，善良的课长则指点他拜托扒手课的资深刑警市川（河村黎吉 饰）寻求帮助。经市川提醒，村上想起公车上身边站着的一个女人，正是女惯犯阿银（岸辉子 饰）。耐不住村上的死缠烂打，阿银透露了手枪贩子的信息。在此之后，村上深入这座城市最黑暗的角落，寻找关于手枪的蛛丝马迹。与此同时，有人用他的手枪犯案，形势日渐紧迫。二战后日本都市的芸芸众生相，通过村上野狗一般锐利的双目交替呈现……
回复 :日美宣战后，林晨辉停止了在日本的留学，返回自己的家乡——台湾。林同仁为欢迎儿子归来，特意请来亲朋好友一起庆贺。晨辉和未婚妻秀兰翩翩起舞，唱起台湾民歌“望春风”。突然，保甲长带着日本军官闯进来，不容解释就打。外甥卫国急忙点头哈腰，日本军官才离去。鞭炮齐响，晨辉和秀兰正式定婚了。人们为他俩祝福，只有卫国的笑脸上潜藏着阴影，原来卫国也爱慕秀兰，幻想秀兰做他的妻子。卫国找到地痞侯君正，讨来一着“高棋”。他们买通日本人抓晨辉去当兵，又假装同情让二人逃走。晨辉、秀兰乘船刚走不远，就被日本巡逻艇拦住，晨辉被抓走。卫国强迫秀兰嫁给他，被断然拒绝。侯君正霸占了林家财产，林同仁一气而死，管家阿勇伯也双目失明。秀兰被迫去“翠花楼”做女招待，在酒楼受尽凌辱，她愤怒之极扎死卫国。酒女阿花为掩护秀兰逃跑，死于侯君正枪下。晨辉被抓兵后派到菲律宾对美作战。在一次战斗中，他身负重伤，幸亏土著老人和他女儿若男相救，才大难不死。日本兵要拉若男去军营，晨辉和土著父女与日军展开激战，若男不幸死于日军乱枪之中。夜晚，晨辉和土著老人炸掉日军油库，老人为掩护他撤离，与日军同归于尽。晨辉终于回到家乡，他决心报仇雪恨。侯君正在妈祖庙前看乡剧。突然舞台上出现的晨辉，他拔枪射出仇恨的子弹，台下人群大乱，侯君正在打手们的掩护下向外撤。晨辉双枪齐发，打手一个个倒下去。侯君正跑进妈祖庙里，晨辉追进庙内，终于结果了作恶多端的侯君正，为亲人报了仇。夕阳落下，传来“望春风”歌曲的口琴声。秀兰、李母二人扶着双目失明的阿勇伯和林晨辉一起走来。昔日幸福美满的家庭被拆散，美好的一天何日才能到来。
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)
回复 :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、一个夜鹰、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。
