故事讲述一名海军陆战队军官在服役期间受到心理创伤，她回国寻找机会治疗。她在纽约的一座历史悠久、迷宫一样的公寓大楼当看门人，发现雇佣兵们有意摧毁一切，以便寻找公寓中的珍宝。

德川幕府时代，会津藩马回队武士笹原伊三郎（三船敏郎 饰）剑术高超，为人则恪守职责，忍辱负重。某日，藩主松平政容（松村达雄 饰）将爱妾阿市（司叶子 饰）以大不敬的罪名赶出藩邸，并命其下嫁伊三郎的长子与五郎（加藤刚 饰）。迫于对藩主的忠诚，笹原家最终接受了这门婚事。婚后与五郎和阿市相亲相爱，婚姻美满。然事情突然发生变化，阿市于城中生养的儿子成为藩主继承人，为免有失体统，藩主欲将阿市召回。不满藩主的出尔反尔，伊三郎强硬拒绝了来使的无理要求。双方剑拔弩张，伊三郎和与五郎不惜以鲜血维护武士不可侵犯的荣誉……本片荣获1967年英国电影学会奖萨瑟兰郡奖，1968年电影旬报之最佳导演、最佳影片和最佳剧本，1968年每日电影奖最佳影片，1967年威尼斯电影节费比西奖国际影评人奖。

正义联盟将面临一群超级恶棍，他们的力量甚至可以与世界上最伟大的超级英雄在正义联盟与致命五人组(2019年上映的DC宇宙原创电影)中抗衡。

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.