盛晓白因中表弟圈套未能参加盛家传庄大典,他的叔叔盛东风和他的父亲盛南风因家产分配有了意见分歧,最后决定以麻将输赢来定夺财产分配。在经过激烈的麻将大赛后,盛东风输掉了比赛,最后连原本的继承人儿子盛晓白也被逐出家门。在外居无定所的盛晓白,发誓要夺回自己失去的一切。在一次意外中,盛晓白认识了包租婆沈无缺,并跟随她回到了一个神秘的“猪笼寨”无连庄蜗居。在这里,他结识了许多麻将高人,与他们一同锻炼牌技,后来又得笋老师相助,盛晓白牌技突飞猛进,个性也由骄傲自大,慢慢转变成了善良且谦虚的人。笑闹之间,盛晓白与沈无缺也产生了久违的情愫。最后盛晓白与叔叔盛南风发起了挑战,并成功夺回了属于自己的一切。
吉村公三郎代表作,也是蘇珊.桑塔最喜愛的日本經典片之一。吉村愛向難度挑戰,喜歡實驗,討厭被歸類,是松竹的壞孩子,卻因此為日本電影開創出不少可能性。影片描寫日本戰後,末落貴族變賣大宅前舉行的最後一場舞會。吉村親歷這樣的一個舞會,他用所見所感,寫出一個個玲瓏浮凸的人物:戀棧風光的父親,目空一切的兒子,不肯放下身段的大女兒...道盡大時代的種種細碎。也是原節子代表作,這個洞悉世情的次女兒與父親起舞,成為全片焦點,也為時代作了精采的解讀。 World War II is over, and the once-prominent Anjo family has fallen on hard times. They must finally sell the family home - but not before one last ball to recapture their glory days. However, old secrets and high emotions threaten to turn the evening into tragedy. Proud patriarch Tadahiko (Takizawa) can barely keep his unruly offspring in check, and tries every last trick to keep the house where he has spent the happiest years of his life. In his darkest hour, daughter Atsuko (frequent Ozu heroine, Hara Setsuko) shows her beleaguered father the hard-won dignity in starting over. SummerIFF 2007
An overworked dad, missing out on his kids growing, takes an opportunity to start a "family business" thinking it will draw his family closer together - That is just mistake number one.