讲的是患有癌症的渡边临死前的生活
有个镜头非常巧妙，渡边决定做有意义的事时候，下楼的镜头，对上了其他人过生日的镜头，两者的重合，象征着渡边的重生，营造出一种别样的氛围，庆祝生日，看上去就像在给渡边庆祝重生.
黑泽明还让渡边在影片一半的时候就死掉了，后一半则靠葬礼上的闪回来讲述他临死前的作为.
这样的非线性叙事在当时非常的少有. 人物和人物的关系的转折也太奇怪了 前后不一致 Can't really buy it. But the death topic is still very interesting. 喜欢结尾的Poem.Do not go gentle into that good night.Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightening they do not go gentle into that good night. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, and learn, too late, they grieved it on its way. Do not go gentle into that good night."一个芬兰女人为了逃避在莫斯科的一段秘密婚外情，登上了前往北极港口摩尔曼斯克的火车. 她被迫与一名俄罗斯矿工在狭小的卧铺车厢里度过漫长的旅程. 这次意外的邂逅使他们开始面对，自己所渴望的，人与人之间接触的真相.
