牧本是大家眼里的麻烦人，他呆呆的，不会察言观色，经常听不懂别人的言外之意，也不向任何人敞开心扉。牧本在市政厅做着一个叫作送别员的工作，专门负责处理那些孤独死的人的后事。他总是做一些多余的事情，给人添麻烦，但那些事情又很适合他来做，甚至在他坚持不懈的努力下，原本无人认领的骨灰有了归宿，原本无人参加的葬礼，开始拥有了温情...

方世玉（李连杰 饰）原是城中纨绔子弟，好打抱不平。一日，他闻说外省富豪雷老虎在次设下擂台，比武招亲，又听讲雷小姐貌美如花，遂前往比武招亲。当方世玉过赢准备打赢未来岳母李小环时，一阵风吹过，将台上坐着的小姐的盖头吹了起来，他发现竟是一名丑女时，马上故意认输，溜之大吉。方世玉的母亲苗翠花（萧芳芳 饰）听说儿子擂台上败下阵，自觉颜面无光，于是化身方世玉的哥哥方大玉前往打擂，一举打败了李小环。岂料雷老虎当晚即派人来接方大玉成亲。世玉为救母亲，只有代替母亲前往雷家成亲。母子两计划新婚之后趁回门的时候一起出逃，岂料方世玉的父亲方德回来了！

一支佣兵团队在圣诞夜突袭一栋富有人家的豪宅，并且挟持豪宅内的所有人为人质时，他们竟然遇到一个完全意想不到的强劲对手：圣诞老人（大卫·哈伯 饰），而且他会让他们知道圣诞老人并不是一个面容慈祥、心地善良的圣人。

The story is about an unnamed detective, hired by a beautiful, alcoholic woman, to find clues related to the disappearance of her husband. In the process, the detective is given a map (a ruined one), supposedly to help him, but which turns out in the end to be more like a metaphor of the guidelines one should have in life. The impossibility of finding relevant clues to help him solve the mystery leads the main character to an existential crisis, which builds slowly from inside and finally puts him in the position of identifying himself with the man he was supposed to find.The Man Without a Map (燃えつきた地図 Moetsukita chizu) is a 1968 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and starring Shintaro Katsu. The screenplay was adapted by Kōbō Abe from his novel The Ruined Map. This was the fourth and final film collaboration between Teshigahara and Abe.