1977年，江南某地。“水上飞”张秀英（王丹凤 饰）由于生孩子过多，体质已大不如前。丈夫丁志富（虞桂春 饰）是生产队长，思想观念守旧，虽有三个女儿，但他一心想让秀英给他丁家生个男孩。妇女队长新梅（洪融 饰）在丈夫丁明（丁嘉元 饰）的支持下，实行了计划生育，却遭婆婆丁大妈（谢怡冰 饰）反对。高大伯（程之 饰）的儿子阿龙（何麟 饰）热爱农科，是个有名的“种子迷”，高家长辈却担心儿子迷上种子而忘了娘子。丁有理（韩非 饰）的女儿兰珍（张力维 饰）私下里和阿龙相好，并支持阿龙的种子研究。丁有理知晓后极力反对独生女儿跟阿龙来往，新梅知道后，上门给丁有理做说服工作，经过新梅的努力，每个人对计划生育有了全新的认识......

时代剧演员银四郎（风间杜夫 饰）是当时风靡万千观众的大明星，他英俊潇洒，风流倜傥，并且为人高傲。为了搏求上位，他劝说业已怀孕女友小夏（松坂庆子 饰）委身其貌不扬但为人善良的龙套小演员安次（平井满 饰），自己则转而追求电影巨鳄的女儿朋子（高见知佳 饰）。小夏出现妊娠中毒症状，为保母子平安，安次不惜接收各种危险动作的拍摄，以赚钱购买营养品。经过一段时间相处，小夏的天平渐渐向安次倾斜。而银四郎则正面临事业的最大困境……本片根据第85回直木奖同名获奖小说改编，并荣获1983年日本学院奖最佳女主角（松坂庆子）、最佳男主角（平井满）、最佳导演、最佳影片、最佳配乐、最佳剧本、最佳男配角（风间杜夫）以及最佳新人（平井满）等八项大奖。

Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Buster Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father (Frederick Vroom) has just sold to a small country at war.Agents for the other small nation in the conflict decide to set the ship adrift that same night. When Betsy's father checks up on the ship, he is captured and tied up by the saboteurs. Betsy hears his cry for help and boards the ship to look for him, just before it is cut loose.The Navigator drifts out into the Pacific Ocean. The two unwitting passengers eventually find each other. At first, they have great difficulty looking after themselves, but adapt after a few weeks. At one point, they sight a navy ship and hoist a brightly-colored flag, not realizing it signals that the ship is under quarantine. As a result, the other vessel turns away.Finally, the ship grounds itself near an inhabited tropical island and springs a leak. While Rollo dons a deep sea diving suit and submerges to patch the hole, the black natives canoe out and take Betsy captive. When Rollo emerges from the ocean, the natives are scared off, enabling him to rescue Betsy and take her back to the ship. The natives return and try to board the ship. After a fierce struggle, Rollo and Betsy try to escape in a small dinghy. It starts to sink, and the natives swiftly overtake them in their canoes. Just when all seems lost, a navy submarine surfaces right underneath them and they are saved.

每天入夜，当春日部的居民们酣然入睡之后，他们都会来到一个神奇而又美丽的梦中世界中。在那里，他们可以实现一切想要实现的愿望，满足一切渴望满足的要求，这个梦中的世界充满了快乐和幸福。某日，一个名为贯庭玉崎的女孩跟父母一起搬来了春日部市，成为了这个城市中的新的一份子。然而，从那一天开始，大家就再也没有做过美梦了。那个曾经温暖的梦中世界，如今充满了痛苦、悲哀和恐惧，而梦境中的灾难亦渐渐延续到了现实之中。这一切的发生，显然和玉崎有着脱不清的干系。为了弄清事件的真相，小新（矢岛晶子 配音）联手风间（真柴摩利 配音）和妮妮（林玉绪 配音）等小伙伴们展开了调查。