Playing with both a structural principle of the cinematic medium (the synchronization of sound and image) and one of its core dimensions (to function as a machine for the reproduction of ghosts) with boundless gusto, the greatest polymath of the 1970s New York avant-garde devotes this first part of his Hapax Legomena cycle to nostalgia. He sets it, though, in brackets and openly wonders: can we feel nostalgia for the present? Via a sequence of 13 shots, each of which sees a photograph Hollis took of the New York arts scene ritually burned on a stove while the narrator has already moved on to describing the next still, this classicist poet, photographer, sculptor, critic, and filmmaker who set cinema on a new course explores the limits of representation, rescinding and resurrecting the capacity of the image to speak of reality.源自:
北国渔港小镇,沉默寡言的修治(高倉健 饰)和妻子冬子(いしだあゆみ 饰)一家几口人过着平静的生活。虽然已在此生活十多年,但是即便修治最为亲近的朋友,对他的过去也知之甚少。当年修治曾是大阪夜叉组一名猛将,风光无两之时致令唯一的妹妹被敌对帮派杀害。从此他隐姓埋名,带着妻子来到这个小镇靠打鱼为生。某天,那清秀的女子萤子(田中裕子 饰)来到小镇开设萤火虫酒吧。渔夫们蜂拥前来,热烈捧场。萤子的男人矢岛(北野武 饰)粗暴无礼,赌毒俱全,他引诱渔民们沉湎赌博和毒品,为此与劝阻他的修治发生冲突,最终导致修治的黑道身份被当众揭穿。另一方面,修治也陷入对萤子的迷恋,平静生活再起波澜……