张金胜（高飞饰）、马辉（卢惠光饰）、王彪及霍强为结拜好友，一起打劫珠宝行入狱，行将获释时，四人却在监狱饭堂与另一帮囚犯争执打斗，辉三人被加刑两星期，胜如期出狱。胜前往埋藏珠宝地挖掘藏物，但珠宝却不翼而飞，遂前往狱中告诉辉等人，三人一口咬定胜独吞珠宝，胜无可解释，唯有逃走。私家侦探林韻诗（刘嘉玲饰）为了调查珠宝下落，籍故结识胜，并与胜一同离港。辉三人出狱后告示寻胜，胜四处逃亡，并与韻彻力侦查，发现原来辉与金大枝合谋，早将珠宝掘出，布下圈套嫁祸胜，于是胜与其他兄弟同陈、辉等斗智斗力...

本片是山中貞雄的遺作，也是他的“時代劇的庶民電影”的代表作之一。他在片中吸取了美國電影和法國電影的影響，並受到摯友兼老師小津安二郎的“小庶民電影 ”美學影響，將歷史上江戶時代的小人物形像注入現代庶民的語言、性格、行止、靈魂，成就了一部難得的社會現實主義的佳作。故事發生於十八世紀德川幕府時代，以悲涼調子訴說德川幕府時期低下層的生活，開頭與結尾都是自殺場景，映照出舊時日本社會草根階層的悲哀。另外，山中的剪輯流暢自如，視覺風格鋒如日本繪畫，演員表演也很自然。此片公認為山中最好的作品，也是他僅存的三部電影之一。Humanity and Paper Balloons,unlike most other Japanese films of this period,is a historical film with a critical edge.Refusing to glorify samurai,the film insteaddeflates the myth around them with a gentle humanity. The film opens directly after a penurious ronin samurai has taken his own life.At his funeral his neighbors from his slum mourn his death. Here the film introduces another ronin samurai who lives in equal poverty. Having pawned his sword for food,the samurai searches for work but to no avail. The family's only income comes from the little balloon children's toys made by the wife.Out of desperation,the samurai abets in an attempted kidnapping. After finding out,the wife kills him in his sleep and then takes her own life, closing the film's narrative circle.Brian Whitener, All Movie Guide.

一代咏春拳宗师叶问（甄子丹 饰），平生与各路高手交手无数，桃李天下。然而在时间面前不免要败下阵来。经医生诊断，叶师父罹患头颈癌，去日无多。而就在此时，爱徒李小龙的洋人徒弟找上门来，邀请叶师父前往美国旧金山观看空手道大赛，亲眼见证李小龙向世人展示中国功夫。与此同时，叶师父又要为了儿子美国求学的事宜奔走，却因李小龙开放包容的行止而受到唐人街中华武术会万师父的刁难。传统与现代，保守与包容，中西方文化激烈碰撞。而叶师父也将在异国他乡迎来他的终极之战……

Taylor is forced to hide the young daughter of a woman in witness protection who will be testifying against a powerful Colombian drug cartel in Federal Court, as two ruthless sicarios aim to hunt them down.