A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

有人戏称这部电影是“四个男人的一台戏”。
影片中基本没有特别引人的情节，没有激烈的动作打斗场面，甚至没有撩人心弦的爱情故事，然而绕有趣味的是，影片除却赢得了1700万观众，还被当时权威电影杂志《苏联银幕》评为1983年最佳影片。
这样一部既叫座又叫好的影片讲述了前苏联20年代四个青年音乐家组办爵士乐队的故事。在那样一个“火红的年代”，属于“资本主义意识形态”的爵士乐很难被苏联官方接受。出现在影片中几乎所有文化场合的标语“艺术要为劳动人民服务！”是那个时代的典型象征。四个热爱爵士乐的青年就这样不合时宜、一波三折地进行着他们“不可能完成的任务”。
影片拍摄完成的80年代，苏联人已经开始通过一些“非法渠道”接触西方文化，当时，《巴黎最后的探戈》录像带开始半地下流行，持不同政见歌手的音乐会也几乎场场爆满。因此，在这样一种社会背景下影片中发生的故事立刻能得到观众的认同，主人公们对理想的执着、对自我价值的肯定、对友谊的坚持也让人感觉亲近和鼓舞。
影片运用幽默诙谐的手法对时代进行嘲讽，用优美的音乐旋律和舞蹈动作打动观众，一个本应沉重的题材得以让人轻松地内省。
导演卡·沙赫纳扎罗夫、编剧亚·巴拉基杨斯基、摄影弗·舍弗兹伊克构成了一个强力组合， 剧本经过10次修改，人物性格设计上的差异赋予了演员极大的发挥空间。透视片中时代里的个体、音乐里的个性，我们看到一种俄罗斯哲学的智慧。或许有一天，你已经忘记了影片故事的情节，但是某些掺杂着辛酸与甜蜜、沮丧与欣喜的电影画面会在脑海中悄然浮现。
影片获1984年法国格勒诺布尔国际音乐片电影节评委会特别奖，波兰罗兹国际电影节银奖，并参展1984年伦敦、芝加哥、贝尔格莱德等电影节。

1955 film by Joseph H. Lewis

Roger Grant, a classical violinist, disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with his singer Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend Charlie. Roger comes home after the war and an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

卖唱孤女月容受人欺侮﹐幸得马车夫二和相救﹐把她收留家中。邻居田二姑及皮鞋匠王傻子﹐见月容聪慧能唱﹐于是便介绍乐到杨五爷去学戏﹐后来登台卖唱大受欢迎﹐却引来宋信生垂涎她的美色﹐设法引诱她落入自己设置的圈套。二姑的母亲意欲撮合女儿与二和的婚事﹐可惜二和心属月容而婉拒﹐然而不久二姑在刘经理家中任家佣﹐被诱失身怀孕。月容被信生带到天津﹐才发现被骗﹐好不容易返来﹐欲寻二和﹐可惜二和因在刘经理公司工作﹐生活得以改善﹐便与母亲搬到他处居住﹐月容只得再度卖唱为生。而二姑之母迫刘经理作媒﹐好使还未见肚的女儿能跟二和成婚﹐隐暪她与刘经理之间的丑事。成婚之夜﹐二和隐约听到外头月容正唱着“夜深沉” ﹐可是走到屋外﹐又不见其影踪。后来二和发现被二姑骗婚﹐对她非常冷澹﹐刚巧在清风社找到月容﹐二姑知道后立时请刘经理制约他﹐而刘经理也欲佔有月容而收她为乾女儿。未几二姑知道刘经理转向月儿﹐醋意大生﹐在争执间被刘经理所踢﹐流产身亡。刘经理把月容诱至家中﹐二和紧随相救﹐溷乱中月容掩护二和﹐刘经理的手鎗失火自毙﹐月容也因羞惭而自杀身亡。

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.

Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.