高田(高仓健饰)接到儿子健一患病的消息， 从所居住的渔村赶往东京探望。但多年来的父子隔阂使儿子拒绝见他。但高田仍然决定帮助儿子去完成他的心愿。 高田独自来到中国云南， 在帮助儿子完成心愿的过程中， 他遇到了很多意想不到的困难， 也结识了很多纯朴善良的中国人。短暂的中国之行充满了意外的经历和从未有过的生活体验， 这一切都使高田对儿子健一的内心世界有了很深的理解， 产生了强烈的父子共鸣。他完成了与儿子在精神世界上的彼此沟通， 也同时获得了对亲情与人生更多新的感悟。
健一和自己的父亲高田长期关系紧张，甚至在自己病危、年迈的父亲破例来探望自己时还无法释怀，拒绝了父子沟通的最后机会。健一的妻子将一盘录像带送给公公，其中记录了健一这些年在中国拍摄傩戏的经历，希望高田能借此多了解一下儿子的生活。录像中健一和一位中国云南乡村的傩戏表演者李加民相约去丽江拍他唱的《千里走单骑》，父亲不理解儿子为何那么迷恋傩戏，几乎把它当成工作和生活的全部，可当得知儿子长期抑郁已患上绝症后，六七十岁的老人决定只身去中国寻找到那个李加民，拍下《千里走单骑》这出戏带回给儿子，因为这也是作为父亲的他唯一能猜到的儿子的未了心愿……父亲节电影推荐：千里走单骑
takata (ken takakura ornaments) received the news of his son kenichi sick, went live from fishing village to visit tokyo. but over the years the gap between father and son make his son refused to see him. but takada still decided to help his son to fulfill his wishes. takada alone came from yunnan, china, with the help of his son's desire to complete the process, he encountered many unexpected difficulties, but also to get to know a lot of simple goodness of chinese people. a short trip to china is full of surprises and never had the experience of life experience, all this makes kenichi takada's son had a deep understanding of the inner world, the father and son had a strong resonance. he finished with his son in the spirit world to communicate with each other, and also won the affection and life for more new insights.
kenichi takada and his father a long-term tension, even in his dying, elderly father to visit his shihai exception can not be relieved, rejected the last chance for father and son to communicate. kenichi's wife gave the father a videotape, which records kenichi these years in china nuo opera shooting experience, i hope to know more about takada able to take his son's life. the video kenichi and a chinese yunnan village nuo opera performer li plus people similar to lijiang shoot him sing "trinidad riding alone", the father does not understand why his son so obsessed nuo opera, almost regard it as all the work and life, can be when he learned that his son was suffering from an incurable disease of long-term depression, six or seven-year-old man decided to go to china alone to find lee added that the people photographed, "riding alone for thousands of miles" play back to his son, because this is as a father, he the only son can guess unfulfilled wish ......