秋子自小因病失聪，对生命感到无奈。战祸发生后，与家人避至新泻县居住。秋子的丈夫在战乱中死去，被丈夫的家人迫回娘家。一次旧校生聚会中，认识了片山道夫，两人互相倾慕相恋，后来结了婚。纵使生活艰苦，两人互相持，齐心面对，但不幸的事却不断发生。

明治中期，九州赌徒帮派矢野组组长被人暗杀，其独女龙子（藤纯子 饰）解散帮会，以父亲尸体旁遗落的钱包为线索四处寻找凶手。龙子怀揣小太刀，五年间走遍全国各地的赌场，因出色的赌技而赢得“红牡丹阿龙”的绰号。在岩国某赌场，龙子拆穿庄家作弊手段，引起纠纷，幸得流浪赌徒片桐（高仓健 饰）出手相助。与片桐分手后，龙子得知曾见过杀手容貌的阿新的下落，遂启程寻找，并在道后与熊虎组组长虎吉（若山富三郎 饰）结为兄妹。经熊虎推荐，龙子和阿新前往拜会大阪千成一家第二代首领加仓井（大木实 饰），却偶然在此得知真相……

Deserves recognition as an interesting misunderstanding of the hallucination generation, 20 January 2007Author: TimothyFarrell from Worcester, MA"Wild in the Streets" comes from the same school of film making that spawned other attempts to connect to the counterculture such as "Skidoo" and "Candy". The difference between this and the aforementioned films is that "Wild in the Streets" is reasonably clever and well-made. It isn't sympathetic to the counterculture and will likely offend those with fond memories of the time. Surprisingly, it was a big hit when released and appealed to the youth whom it ridiculed so much. Unlike "The Trip" and "Psych-Out" (two other AIP films), its not an accurate representation of the movement at all. However it does work as social satire.The direction by Barry Shear is good and makes innovative use of split screen photography. Plus, he keeps everything moving at a quick pace. In its funny moments, the film works well. In its attempts at drama, its helplessly dated and just as funny as the humorous moments. Christopher Jones underplays his role and Shelly Winters overacts. Hal Holbrook offers the best performance and Diane Varsi achieves the right note of "grooviness". The script by Robert Thom has its moments, especially the ending (easily the most ingenious part of the film). "Wild in the Streets" isn't perfect, but deserves recognition as an interesting misunderstanding of the hallucination generation. Those into this kind of kitsch will enjoy it the most. I'd rather watch "The Trip" or "Psych-Out" however. (6/10)-from imdb

清朝乱世，草莽中人张汶祥（姜大卫）、黄纵（陈观泰）与马新贻（狄龙）不打不相识，结拜为异姓兄弟，马新贻被推为大哥，张汶祥做了三弟。马新贻的勃勃野心引来黄纵妻子米兰（井莉）的爱慕眼光，但因力求上进的雄心和道德观念的约束，马新贻没接受米兰的爱，到升任两江总督后，马新贻变得为达目的不择手段，并在道德和感情防线彻底崩溃的情形下占有了米兰，同时设计杀害了粗豪鲁莽一心向他的黄纵。张汶祥查出二哥的真实死因后，一改平日的跳脱灵动，郑重地约为女人舍弃好兄弟的马新贻出来清账。