悲情城市

　　本片将视角对准20世纪初，以当时欧洲社会的变化为背景。一对孪生姐妹出世后就分道扬镳，后来一个成了勾引富有男人的名媛，另一个则是身绑炸药从事恐怖活动的无政府主义者。两人不知情上了同一趟东方快车，并且跟同一个男人发生关系。当她俩终于面对面时，她们均摆脱了先前的习性，成了真正的独立女性。

　　An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal London life, back to her home in North England on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity. In HD.

　　影片灵感来自迪士尼乐园同名游乐设施，“在一个让人不寒而栗的鬼屋中进行一趟令人毛骨悚然的旅行，有幽灵、食尸鬼和超自然力量带来的惊吓”，聚焦一个搬进了这栋豪宅的家庭。

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　　Born in a small town in the countryside surrounding Pistoia, Adriana is an attractive young girl who counts on using her looks to go places in the entertainment business in Rome. Moving to the capital, she works first of all in a hairdressing salon, then in a small cinema where she manages to get a job working in fancy dress. Meantime, she socializes with young men of the upper middle classes, who take her to parties and out on the town with the sole aim of taking advantage of her. Adriana knows their game, but plays along. In the meantime, she meets an agent called Cianfanna, a modest money-grubber who introduces her to a journalist friend of his so he can write an article on her. Having thus launched her career in advertising, Adriana decides to go home to visit her parents. Once home, however, she is distraught to learn of the death of her sister. Returning to Rome, she takes acting lessons, but during one lesson she suddenly faints: she is pregnant, with no idea of who the father of her child is. The days go by and Adriana tries to forget about her pregnancy, while sleeping with an increasingly long list of lovers. And yet, despite the fact these encounters are often less than enjoyable, at one point she actually falls in love: his name is Antonio and he's a decent young man from a respectable family, but still in love with a former girlfriend he is unable to forget…

　　故事描述恶霸地主因遭墨西哥土匪捣乱，于是高价聘请一枪手对付土匪，但枪手逐渐认清恶霸的真实凶残面目后，遂对他大为反感，最后亦和恶霸对抗。

　　自《那夜的妻子》后已没见这么绝望的小津。战后作品中，只这一部发生在严寒的冬季，亦只这么一部，探往破碎家庭那缺去的一员。已出嫁的大女儿没法与丈夫相处，回到父亲的家寻找避难所；未出嫁的二女儿忽然怀了孩子，夜夜到夜店等候负心汉的出现。与父亲下属私奔多年的母亲，突然闯进两女儿的生活，可二女儿打掉孩子后，再没法承受残酷的现实。戏剧化的故事在小津晚期作品中不多见，但低调的处理手法炮制了不少经典场面。母亲在辞别东京的列车上不断探头张望女儿一幕，几乎预见老人晚境将至的凄凉。豁达面对生命，是小津往后作品的出路。

　　明朝嘉靖年间，户部侍郎杨继康（董柯娣 饰）因不满朝内奸臣严嵩专权，借口年事已高，欲告老还乡。在他六十寿辰之际，众女儿及夫婿前来拜寿，并争相提出养老送终。三女杨三春（何英 饰）携夫婿邹应龙（方雪雯 饰）前来拜寿，因礼薄遭娘家人冷遇。二姐（吴海丽 饰）持宠欺凌妹妹和妹夫，并唆使杨夫人（徐爱武 饰）将三春和应龙逐出杨府。因受族弟诛连，杨继康全家被逐出京城。二姐见家父落魄，拒绝抚养，昔日同窗摄奸臣淫威，也不敢收留杨继康夫妇，致二老和婢女翠云（何赛飞 饰）流落街头。绝境中，三女杨三春念人伦，将二老接回家奉养。三女婿邹应龙设计斗倒严嵩，杨家冤案昭雪......

　　电影《是的、不会游泳》改编自高桥秀实的著作，长谷川博己饰演的主角明明是一副连都水不敢碰的旱鸭子，却总是找借口的顽固哲学家小鸟游雄司。绫濑遥饰演在教游泳方面非常热情，但除此之外都很笨拙的古怪教练薄原静香。
　　雄司为大学哲学教授，害怕面对水，完全不会游泳，某天，他老是在人和水的关系上推三阻四，极力避开水。在强行劝说雄司入会的教练静香的教室里，和热闹的主妇们一起开始学习游泳，静香说：「比起陆地，水中更容易生存」，而雄司一边因为对水的恐惧而大吵大闹，但一边仍然继续上课。因为某个理由害怕水的雄司，开始了一进一退的日子。

　　原为暴走族的教师鬼冢来到了充满问题的高中，向有烦恼的学生们展开了热血授课。时代从平成变成了令和，出现了在当时没有的SNS的诽谤和中伤的纠纷。

　　四十岁的艾丽莎意识到自己身患绝症，即将与自己的丈夫和女儿阴阳两隔。但在她死前，艾丽莎想了一个办法始终陪伴在孩子身边：她给女儿准备了18份生日礼物，直到后者成年为止。而这18份礼物给成长中的少女既带来的不仅是慰藉，还有对于家庭与生命的烦恼。

　　1993年，山田洋次導演的《學校》在日本本士引起極大迴響，不僅贏得好評如潮，更在各大頒獎禮中獨領風騷。延續篇《學校II》將舞台移師至北海道一間供智障學童入讀的高中，但仍舊以刻劃帥生關係及反思教育意義為核心主題。山田在片中寄托了他對學校及老師們的期望：教育並非只靈培育老師心目中的好學生，老師的工作也並非只是教學，更重要的是跟學生建立深厚的關係。全片溫情洋溢，值得細味。
　　
　　The Learning Circle, a film by Yamada Yoji and a follow-up to his 1993 hit A Class To Remember, is a moving story about the daily life of teachers and students at a high school for mentally-handicapped children. In this film, Yamada has depicted vividly and with genuine emotion the dreams and expectations he has for all schools and teacher: "Education is much more than merely minting students who are easy for schools and teachers to handle. A teacher's job is more than just teaching and guiding students, it is also to associate closely with them."
　　
　　新學年又開始了。在北海道一間專供智障學童入讀的高中，青山龍平老師正在迎接新生。當中一位名叫高志的學生智商不算低，但過去曾受同學欺侮，心靈創傷使他從此一言不發。另一位學生佑矢就更是問題多多。他總是不肯乖乖坐著，一時大呼小叫，一時又像一枝箭似的飛奔出課室；問他甚麼也好，答案就衹有一個：午後紅茶－他最喜愛的飲料。資深老師也拿他沒法，於是把佑矢交給新到任的小林老師看管，害得他沒一刻能放鬆，差點得了神經衰弱。直到一天，一件前所未有的事發生了：佑矢忽然跳了起來，想要搶奪北川老師手中的文稿。這時，一直沒開口說過一句話的高志忽然疾言厲色地罵他。更令人意外的是郤是佑矢的反應──他第一次順著別人的意思去做。自那一天起，學校有了重大的改變，不僅是學生，老師也一樣……
　　
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