A man who becomes wealthy starts to have an affair and though his wife knows of it, she says nothing. Soon, the affair starts to have consequences and his business falls apart while the man’s sister starts to have a relationship with the brother of his wife.

1920或30年代的上海。
创办小学多年并自任校长的陈绍常（石挥）早年丧妻，独自抚养两子建中、建平和一女建英。与他一起生活的大姐劝他续弦，他虽也有心，却因目睹挚友的爱女刘敏华备受后母虐待，断了念头。不久，挚友亡故，敏华辞别他后随后母迁居外地，一别十年。两人再见面时，敏华（朱嘉琛）已成长为独立自强却不失贤淑的新女性，因不愿再受后母摆布，她拜托绍常介绍一份工作。随后，她成为绍常的同事。
成年的建中（韩非）如愿以偿成为某家银行的职员，因得经理赏识，他结识其女冯丽君（李浣青），很快变作其乘龙快婿，社会地位日益提高。建中夫妇认为绍常卑微的小学校长身份丢了他们的脸，劝他退休在家做老太爷，绍常虽一百个不情愿，却也乖乖听命。敏华接下他的工作。只是赋闲在家的日子不好过，每日时间都似他那块坏掉了的老怀表般静止不动。而将无聊心情讲给家人听时，家人或怨他有福不懂享、或自忙自事无暇顾他，他的失落一日多过一日，与建中夫妇的矛盾亦越来越多。
又到一年清明时，拜祭亡妻时，绍常遇见前来祭母的敏华，感慨人到老年只能等死，敏华却认为人在中年的他正处于事业的黄金期，劝他再回学校教书。而听从敏华建议偷偷瞒着建中再回学校教书一事漏泄后，建中对他的态度更加冷淡，但他已铁了心。“天意怜幽草，人间爱晚晴”，其后，他无意间发现自己与敏华早已两情相悦，决定与她结婚，此事更令建中夫妇大为恼火。

San mao (3 hairs) was a very popular Chinese comic strip first published in 1935-37, continued from 1948 into the 1990s, about a young orphan boy struggling with life in Shanghai.

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of whether to continue playing. As Tian gets to grips with training Xiaoje and the rest of the team, he reflects on his career as a star basketball player before the revolution.

A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast are Chinese actors in whiteface. The greedy Mr. Butler (Shi Hui) convinces the suicidal “Charley” that he might as well endorse some cigarettes as he jumps out of his office window, and maybe wear a particular suit too. A true cinematic oddity, this Korean War–era propaganda piece is a satire that Frank Tashlin could envy.