在位于埼玉县的某个乡下小镇,留着超级夸张爆炸头的田中广(松田翔太饰)度过了浑浑噩噩的童年、少年和青年时代,在自作主张从高中退学之后,他作别了死党大泽(堤下敦饰)、冈本(田中圭饰)、井上(驹木根隆介饰)和村田(远藤要饰),只身前往大都会东京谋生。供职于某隧道挖掘公司的田中,日复一日劳作,不知不觉迎来了24岁的生日。某天他收到井上的结婚请帖,这才想起来和好友们当年的约定:无论将来谁结婚,其他人都要带着自己的女友出席。眼看好友们和各自或平凡或美艳的女友出双入对,卿卿我我,田中心中分外焦急。就在此时,美丽温柔的女邻居加藤亚矢(佐佐木希饰)出现在他的面前,令废柴田中燃起爱情的希望…… 本片根据漫画家乘附雅春(のりつけ雅春)的人气系列漫画“痞子田中(アフロ田中)”中的《上京田中》改编。。This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops.
At the end of the film, Keaton's character locks up the cops in the police station. However, the girl he is trying to woo disapproves of his behavior and gives him the cold shoulder. Therefore, he unlocks the police station and is immediately pulled in by the cops. The film ends with the title "The End" written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it.
One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.。