清末战火连绵民不聊生，大哥（李连杰 饰）被同僚出卖，所带军队无一生还。因为装死而活下来的大哥遇见了离家出走的莲生（徐静蕾 饰），二人一夜取暖后，莲生不告而别。大哥在街道上被三弟（金城武 饰）发现并带回村，发现竟是二虎（刘德华 饰）的妻子。被贫穷饥饿所折磨的农民在憨厚的二虎与忠诚的三弟的带领下，劫抢官银，导致官府半夜报复。大哥乘机鼓动大家参加军队赚来军饷粮食，三人纳投名状结兄弟义，浩浩荡荡地带着一百零八人出发从军。这支兄弟军不要命的拼劲，拿下不少胜仗。只是爬得越高，大哥的野心越大，二虎与三弟再也无法管束，分歧渐生；而大哥与莲生的感情被三弟发现，三弟误以为莲生是兄弟反目的原因，想借杀大嫂来解救二虎。面对朝廷的欺诈、官府的黑暗、野心的膨胀，曾经纳过投名状的三兄弟最终自相残杀……

凌霄（罗烈 饰）和关望龙（张佩山 饰）两位天鹰镖局的镖师，他们武功高强，擅长应变，保护着镖局的信念，坚持不让镖旗落地，使得劫匪无法得逞。他们的表现获得了镖局主人的器重。关望龙对孙女方燕怀有单恋之情，渴望能够赢得她的芳心，并希望能够日后继承镖局。然而，方燕却对凌霄心生情愫，这使得关望龙感到愤怒和嫉妒。他最终与黑道人物金不换密谋劫镖，并将罪责嫁祸给凌霄。电影中充满了复杂的人际关系和情感纠葛，这个故事将展现出友情、爱情、背叛和忠诚之间的复杂关系，以及在这些纠葛中，人们如何面对挑战并保持信念。

杉野遥亮饰演因大学考试失败宅在家中的黑须越郎，他企图上吊自杀没能成功，墙壁开了个洞，他可以看到福原遥饰演的美丽邻居宫市的生活，逐渐喜欢上她，然而某天他竟然看到对方杀人的一幕，偷窥一事也曝光了，黑须告白了心中的爱，于是两人开始交往。

Ole and Chick are making a movie, but the director is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer, who outlines them an absurd story. They have to support Jeff and Kitty in setting up a musical revue in their garden and want to bring it up on Broadway. If Jeff is successful he can marry Kitty. But there is his rich friend Woody, who also loves Kitty, Chick's sister Betty, who's in love with a false Russian count, and detective Quimby. They all make the thing very complicated for Ole and Chick. After some mistakes they think that Kitty isn't the right girl for Jeff and they start sabotaging the show, but the Broadway producer is impressed and signs the contract. That's the story the writer tells them. For this he's sued by the director.Written by Stephan Eichenberg