团圆必胜

　　战后的日本，四名退休艺妓用另一种方式维持着彼此当年的关系，也体味着生活的孤独。绪纪（杉村春子 饰）年轻时纠缠于多名男子之间，时至今日仍有当年的情人打扰她的生活，孑然一身的绪纪放高利贷给昔日姐妹，用刻薄的态度掩盖些许失落。音美与玉惠合租一室，膝下分别育有一儿一女，如今音美沉溺赌博、玉惠卧病，不得不忍受绪纪的奚落。年岁渐长的儿女成家远行，音美同玉惠一时倍感孤苦，只能借酒浇愁……
　　绪纪久久不能忘怀的情人田部（上原谦 饰）来访，但这个步入中年的男人早已无曾经的意气风发，绪纪燃起的最后一点希望也将幻灭么？
　　本片根据作家林芙美子的三篇小说改编，位列《电影旬报》年度十佳第七位。

　　A film adaptation of a play made by a high school drama club, directed by Yamashita Nobuhiro of Linda Linda Linda (2006). It’s essentially a coming-of-age film about teenagers made by teenagers. During summer vacation, at a high school, the PE teacher makes female students who skipped his class clean the outdoor swimming pool. The drained pool is full of sand blown in from a nearby baseball field, and the task of scooping up the sand and putting it in buckets seems meaningless. Chizuru, who used to be unbeatable in the swim club in middle school even against boys, practices imaginary swimming in the sand-filled pool, while Kokoro, who is serious about cultivating her feminine charm by diligently applying makeup, doesn’t care about cleaning. With their own stories, Miku, who diligently practices dance moves typically performed by men, and Yui, who was the swim club captain last year, and the other girls meet and converse on the pool floor under the summer sun, where unexpected conflicts arise and resolve in unexpected ways. Through a few hours in a day at a high school, the film interestingly shows the sensibilities and desires, dreams and hopes, anger and frustration of that time.

　　故事讲述住在一个屋檐下的一对同父异母的姐妹凯西跟温蒂，彼此都看对方不顺眼。在台风天的夜里，父亲因为工作而需要离开家几天。将两姐妹托给保姆多莉照顾。不巧家里因为台风而断电，多莉冒雨向外求援后却一去不复返，而门外似乎又有不明人物在游荡，两姐妹必须尽弃前嫌，才能逃出生天。

　　职业大盗里奇运气欠佳，盗窃出了问题，他是唯一的生还者，里奇被只有无奈地接受惩罚，他被派到俄罗斯偷取在莫斯科摩天大厦顶层房子的贵重古董，可事情开始时已经不大顺利，在抢劫期间，里奇和俄罗斯搭档更被警察困在空置的13楼，他们唯有胁持人质…

　　一个女人庆祝她40岁生日的方式是让她的三个最好的朋友来和她和她的丈夫一起度过一个长周末。这名妇女在过去两年中一直坐在轮椅上，这导致她把自己孤立在家里。她的丈夫陪在她身边，因为他对导致她坐上轮椅的车祸感到内疚。在为期三天的庆祝活动中，我们发现每个人都在为自己的生活和身份而奋斗。当一个最好的朋友犯了一个可怕的错误，在她的生日那天背叛了她，每个人都立即被迫不安地审视自己的生活和局限性。

　　Gabrielle is writing an illustrated guide book on sex called 'How To Do It.' At a book signing she meets Saul, an established male writer who is straight. She both loves and hates his work which has seeped into her secular Jewish life from childhood. The more Gabrielle tells him about her book the more he wants to know about her life; the relationship with her younger girlfriend Olivia and her determination to "stop using my penis in sex". As her book takes form, is Saul jealous or desirous? Their friendship is tested as is Gabrielle's relationship with Olivia. The film muses on how we write, how we draw. And the nature of "story" and what it makes us do.