在富山监狱担任技术指导官员的仓岛英二(高仓健 饰)新近丧妻,妻子洋子(田中裕子 饰)的音容笑貌和曼妙歌喉时时盘桓心头,令他难以忘怀。这天他收到洋子生前寄来的绘信,叮嘱丈夫将自己的骨灰撒在故乡长崎薄香的海里。抱持着心间种种疑问,仓岛驾车踏上旅途。一路上他结识了自称新近丧妻的国文教师(北野武 饰)、开朗的车站便当推销员田宫(草剪刚 饰)及其沉默寡言的下属南原(佐藤浩市 饰)、薄香当地经营餐馆的母女(余贵美子 & 绫濑遥 饰)、老渔夫大浦吾郎(大泷秀治 饰)及其孙子(山浦贵大 饰),交织着与妻子相守时分的点点滴滴,仓岛终于抵达旅途的终点……
本片荣获第36届日本电影金像奖最佳男配角奖(大泷秀治)和最佳女配角奖(余贵美子),该片也是大泷先生的遗作。。孟小军的全家遭遇了一场惨烈的车祸,他们骑的摩托车被卡车撞翻,孟小军受了重伤,年仅4岁的女儿严重脑损伤,而妻子则当场死亡。女儿必须在一周之内做一台昂贵的手术才能保住性命,手术的花费要十二万,作为小县城的修车工,孟小军根本无法在一周之内凑到钱。所以,走投无路的他听从了太平间管理员老张的建议:打算将妻子的遗体卖到农村,与一个刚刚死去的年轻人结成阴婚。
All the families of Xiaojun Meng suffered a serious car accident. A truck rammed his motorcycle and Xiaojun Meng was hurt badly and her four-year-old daughter was suffered a fearful brain damage, but her wife was dead, unfortunately.
In order to save her daughter, she must be conducted an expensive operation within a week, which costs ¥120,000. Since Meng is a car mechanic in a small town, there is no doubt that Meng cannot pay the operation fee. At last, he followed the mortuary administrator, Lao Zhang’s advice, that is, he would sell his wife’s remains to rural and got her Yin married with a dead young man.。