热爱绘画的19岁青年安冈邦彦（真田广之 饰）考入某大学的美术系，但他的人生却发生变故。母亲遽然离世，给了这个未经世事的青年莫大打击。在道顿堀川旁经营咖啡店的中年男子武内铁男（山崎努 饰）同情邦彦的遭遇，于是出资安葬了他的母亲，并将其留在店中帮工。铁男的儿子政夫（佐藤浩市 饰）痴迷桌球和赌博，父子俩为此关系紧张，于是铁男对拥有远大理想的邦彦视同己出，呵护备至，而政夫则在赌球的泥潭中越陷越深。某日，邦彦在桥上写生时邂逅了风姿绰约的真知子（松坂庆子 饰），奇妙的因缘在这一刻悄悄展开……本片根据宫本辉“河流三部曲”（《泥之河》、《萤之川》、《道顿堀川》）中的同名原著改编。

1948年解放战争的关键时期，党中央提出“召开全国政治协商会议，商讨民主建国大计。”香港、上海等地大批爱国民主人士，在共产党精心与巧妙的安排下，经过艰难曲折，甚至冒着被国民党特务劫杀的危险，辗转汇聚于北平，与共产党民主协商肝胆相照，完成了建立新中国的历史使命。

本片描述嗜赌成性且好与人争的人力车夫松五郎的一生。松五郎与陆军大尉一家熟识，不料大尉却突然去世，于是松五郎负起代大尉照顾孤儿寡妇的责任，直到大尉的儿子长大成人。本片原由伊丹万作(伊丹十三之父)执导，根据岩下俊作的《富岛松五郎传》改编，后因伊丹卧病，改由稻垣浩拍摄完成。

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada's. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.