Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.
L・チャンを主軸に、M・チャン、C・ラウ、A・ラウ、J・チュン、T・レオンと、当時人気絶頂の香港のトップスターたちがきら星のごとく顔をそろえて各自の魅力を存分に発揮。彼らが繰り広げる甘く切ない男女の擦れ違いの恋愛劇を、ウォン監督がスタイリッシュな映像と話法でムード満点に描いて評判を呼び、第10回香港電影金像奨で、作品賞、監督賞など主要5部門を制覇。これが2作目だったウォン監督の異才ぶりをより広く知らしめ、世界中でそれにしびれる熱狂的ファンが続出することとなった。 1960年の香港。競技場の売店の販売員スーは、プレーボーイのヨディからきざなセリフで口説かれ、彼を愛するようになるが、ヨディはやがて、クラブのダンサーのミミに心が移ってしまう。彼に捨てられて心傷つき、夜の街をひとりさまようスーを巡回中の若い警官タイドは慰め、彼女に恋心を抱くが、それは片想いに終わる。“お前の実の母親は外国にいる”と養母から告げられたヨディは、実母に会いにフィリピンへと旅立つが……。
商社マンとヤクザのふたりが、中国・雲南省の奥地、鳥人伝説の残る少数民族の村で自分を見つめ直していく姿をとらえたヒューマン・コメディ。
Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. Throughout five seasons in exile, Ouyang spins tales of his clients' unrequited loves and unusual acts of bravery.
蒼井優、鈴木京香、竹内結子、田中麗奈、仲間由紀恵、広末涼子の6女優が、昭和から平成にいたるまでの3代の女性たちを演じる群像劇。監督は「タイヨウのうた」の小泉徳宏。昭和11年、封建的な家長制度で生まれ育った凛（蒼井）は、親同士が決めた結婚を受け入れられず、花嫁姿のまま家を飛び出す。時は過ぎ昭和30年、凛の長女・薫（竹内）、次女・翠（田中）、三女・彗（仲間）は高度経済成長のなか、たくましく成長していた。そして平成21年、そして平成21年、彗の長女・奏（鈴木）は、平凡ながらも幸せな生活をおくる次女・佳（広末）を優しく見つめながら、人生の岐路に立たされていた。
Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; his girlfriend wants him to commit to marriage or she will leave Hong Kong with another lover; and he is being pursued by other cops who are unaware that he is a colleague. Chow would rather quit the force, feeling guilty about betraying gang members who have become his friends.
In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting people and discovering new horizons, trying to overcome her past.
Inside a cafe while smoking a whole pack of cigarettes, a man poses an ambitious question: "What is Love?". A collection of vignettes and situations will lead the man to the desired conclusion.
Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?
Five young hoodlums sing karaoke, murder, joke around, get beaten up, win and lose women, and learn the value of blind loyalty.
A shy introvert falls for the photographer who took her pictures during high school. Confused and worried, she doubts that love will elapse and can never open up to her lover. Yet she cannot runaway from love.
Cosimo is Italian, Nicole French. They meet in Genoa during the G8 protests and immediately fall in love. Swept off their feet by an overwhelming and uncontrollable passion, they decide never to part. After much wandering they decide to return to Genoa, where they start working for a friend of theirs who organises concerts. Things seem to be going well until a tragic accident almost sours their relationship, as a result of which they’re faced with two options that can change their future. Forever.
When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.
David Cronenberg stands in a softly lit bedroom and looks deeply into the camera before his gaze shifts to a motionless figure in the bed...
Love Is Not All Around explores modern relationships, interweaving the love stories of the six characters to reveal what love means to young people in metropolitan Hong Kong.
「情事」「欲望」のミケランジェロ・アントニオーニ、「花様年華」「ブエノスアイレス」のウォン・カーウァイ、「セックスと嘘とビデオテープ」のスティーブン・ソダーバーグが、愛とエロティシズムをテーマにそれぞれの作品を撮り上げたオムニバス。カーウァイ監督の「若き仕立屋の恋」（トニー・レオン、コン・リー主演）、ソダーバーグ監督の「ペンローズの悩み」（ロバート・ダウニー・Jr.、アラン・アーキン主演）、アントニオーニ監督の「危険な道筋」（クリストファー・ブッフホルツ主演）の3編で構成される。
Intransigent magistrate Viola Orlando is targeted by her rivals who set her twin sister Rosa — a high-class prostitute and pornographic photo-novel star — up to impersonate Viola and demolish her reputation. To complicate things even further, Viola is torn between enforcing the law or giving up her seat on the bench to marry her childhood friend.
Anthony Wong is a rich sex-deprived man who meets a Monk, who offers him an erotic dream. He becomes addicted to the dream and falls in love with the beautiful female student in it. Unfortunately, the dream is part of the Monk's conspiracy to obtain or destroy all that matters to him. Once Wong finally finishes his dream, things start going horribly badly. For example, his dog loses its head and his mother gets mutilated and stuffed into a box while he was asleep. The dream maker has gained control of Wong through his dreams and his desires and is out to take everything from him. In an attempt to seek revenge, his brother returns from Malaysia and joins forces with the Monk's wife, who has grown tired of the ritual abuse delivered by her sadistic husband.
女子高生の恵（中村有沙）は、亡くなった妹のことを考え過ぎてしまい、彼女の死を乗り越えることができずにいた。そんなとき、先輩の亜矢（菅野麻由）に誘われ直井（ダニー）、タケ（岸建太朗）、真希（護あさな）と一緒にキャンプに行くことになる。モデル志望の真希の目的は、スーパーモデル愛用のダイエット効果てきめんの寄生虫・サナダムシをゲットすることで……。
A college student unexpectedly finds that she has inherited a derelict house. Accompanied by a group of friends, she goes there to clear it of heirlooms before the structure is demolished. Almost immediately, she and her friends are targeted by a powerful warlock who is very interested in her bloodline.