1933年，纽约流氓Noodles（罗伯特·德·尼罗 饰）因向哈洛伦警司（布鲁斯·巴伦堡 饰）通风报信害死了三名同伙而被追杀。逃亡之前，他打开了存放帮派基金的手提箱，里面却只有报纸。 1968年，已改名换姓的Noodles收到一封犹太会堂通知迁葬亲友的信。Noodles联系拉比，得知信是八个月前寄出的，他的三名同伙已被迁葬至一所豪华公墓。Noodles回到纽约，找老友莫（拉里·拉普 饰）了解情况，却一无所获。闲谈中，Noodles问起莫的妹妹黛博拉（伊丽莎白·麦戈文 饰）的情况，得知其已成名角。 原来，两人少时互有好感，但黛博拉（詹妮弗·康纳利 饰）志向高远脚踏实地，理智地将街头混混Noodles（斯科特·提勒 饰）拒于门外。 Noodles在公墓发现了一把钥匙，并用钥匙打开了当年存放手提箱的储物柜。这一次，箱子里有满满的百元钞，还有写着“下一份工作的预付款”的纸条……

柳生一族因为武艺高强一直都受到德川家的信赖依重，但也因此受到来自各方的觊觎。由于外传世间有三卷武艺帐隐藏了对柳生家极为不利之证据，引发各山头势力积极追查武艺帐下落……

Chan-woo, who has been studying to become a police officer for 5 years, joins his friends for dinner to ask for the money to apply for his exam and ends up getting drunk. He completely blacks out and wakes up not remembering what happened in his next door neighbor's room. Not only that, he finds a bloody corpse in the middle of the room. He hurries back to his room and tries to report the incident but he had forgotten his phone in the other room. But the door is locked and he has to resort to using a rope to swing to the next door room outside the window. Once the phone is recovered, he cannot go back because of a group of cultists who are evangelizing the neighbors in the hallway. He knows it’s the last day to apply for his exam and gets antsy as time is running out.

A meth amphetamines cook hunts down the former Police chief of a small town in order to silence him before he can deliver eyewitness testimony against his family, but ultimately finds himself up against more than he had bargained for.