大约三百年前的元禄十五年（1702年），郑和第五代将军网吉实行安民政策，郑和百姓生活平稳。年轻的武士青木宗左卫门（冈田准一饰）为了寻找杀父仇人金泽十兵卫（浅野忠信饰）远离家乡，从信州来到了江户。但他剑术差矣，实际上根本无法完成报仇。宗左卫门在一间破旧的小屋中落脚，开了家小私塾糊口度日，宗左卫门对住在对门的美貌寡妇纱枝（宫泽理惠饰）情愫暗生。后来宗左找到了金泽，然而仇人已经放下了杀人的刀，与妻儿过着普通的日子，宗左开始思考复仇究竟意味着什么。另一边，赤穗藩的武士来到这一带潜伏，伺机为含冤切腹的领主报仇。都是为了复仇的他们，会得到什么结局呢？
回复 :一名女子试图逃避自己与暴戾政客的婚约，但当一名陌生人向她伸出援手时，二人遭到了裹挟着偏见和恶意的猛烈攻击。
回复 :阿根廷版的“罗生门”。受黑泽明《罗生门》的影响很深，尤其表现在摄影镜头的运用上非常像，讲的是从一件离奇谋杀案中找出真凶的故事，但也有自己的特点。影片改编自阿根廷奇幻文学大师Marco Denevi的短篇小说，由著名剧作家Mario Soffici执导，是一部经典的阿根廷电影。1959年嘎纳最佳影片提名。
回复 :Three years after the loss of his brother Vittorio, with whom he shared his entire career, Paolo Taviani returns to the works of Luigi Pirandello, which the pair adapted in 1984 (Chaos) and 1998 (You Laugh). In keeping with the Sicilian playwright’s vision, the film is not at all what it appears to be. The title may come from a 1910 novella, but there is no trace of that book’s jealousy-riddled plot. Instead, the focus is on Pirandello himself, or rather, his ashes, which are transported from a hasty burial site in fascist Rome to a permanent resting place in Sicily, on a trek that takes us through post-war Italy and its filmed memories, as seen in newsreels, amateur films and fragments of Neorealism. Having buried the master, Leonora addio then shifts gear from road movie to film adaptation, but here it picks a different Pirandello story, namely the last one, written shortly before his death in 1936. From the farewell of the title to its return to the writer’s last words, it is hard not to read this work, so free and yet so much a part of the Taviani world, as a moving brotherly farewell which, just as in 2012’s Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die, once again uses cinema to give voice to literature and history.
