亮（吉冈秀隆饰）与家里的父亲发生了冲突，离家旅行到一个小镇，遇到了一家影院的经理活男（西田敏行饰），并留了下来工作，在影院工作的还有放映师常先生（田中邦卫饰），并认识了开咖啡店的八重子（田中裕子饰）。活男一直喜欢八重子，可惜后来终未能如愿，八重子离开了小镇。

　　The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually “seduced” by the father. When suspicions arise that the mother had been murdered (and had been having an affair), Michelle unknowingly becomes enveloped in a web of lies until she herself is suspected. Gradually she realises all is not as it seems.

　　战国时代，有八位武士带着三千两黄金来到一个破落的村庄，却惨遭利欲熏心的村民们的杀害，许多怪异事情因而
　　发生，人们便称这个村庄为“八墓村”。曾带领村民攻击八位武士的田治见庄左卫门，他的子孙——要藏在大正某
　　年疯狂地残杀三十二个村民后，行踪成谜。二十几年后，“八墓村”仿佛被下了魔咒一般，再度演出惊悚杀人事件
　　。要藏地石棺里埋藏了传说中三千两黄金地证据——三枚金币，这三枚金币却让他的儿子辰弥陷入了恶魔的诅咒之
　　中——八墓村即将追索他的牺牲者......八墓村村民连夜追杀辰弥，震天的杀声将辰弥逼入万劫不复的鬼火潭中。
　　究竟辰弥能否逃过这次劫难？暗藏幕后的真凶是何人？三千两黄金到底只是传说或确有其事？

　　故事写的是在一个临海的小渔村，一个老妇人被病魔夺去了生命。这一来，原本非常平静的小渔村立刻起了变化，汇拢来的女眷们簇拥着遗体，毫无忌惮地放声痛哭。不久，吊唁的客人和村民纷纷沓至。亡人是个著名作家的母亲，所以也惊动了中央及地方的要员。时光流逝，夜入三更，人们举杯落盏之余，有的已是横躺竖卧，烂醉如泥。但也有人或醉心赌牌，或大嚷大叫，或出拳动手打骂起来。丧家乱哄哄的，一片狼藉。天亮了，送葬的时刻到了。人们抬着棺舆，排着队列，唱着挽歌，向墓地进发。下葬结束后，回到丧家的人们，将死者的遗像安放在灵堂，最后照纪念照。大家神情凝重，照相人的一句玩笑，才把大家逗得笑了起来。活动结束了，小小的渔村又恢复了往日的平静。

　　During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a German officer. When Berlin falls to the Russians, and her husband killed, she flees to America, carrying his unborn child, all the while not giving up hope that she will find her family, tied together by her mother's ring