山炮闯江湖

　　以乡村少女进城打工，却在复杂难解的都市人际关系中载浮载沉的生命故事为题，描写孤身一人投靠亡父挚友的女主角，在城市老街一角的汤屋里看遍悲欢离合的惆怅物语，宛若现代写实版的《魔女宅急便》，女主角松本穗香曾演出《谢谢你，在世界的角落找到我》电视剧版女主角，被视为日本影坛潜力新秀。

　　1989年1月的一天，牧师唐·派珀（海登·克里斯滕森 Hayden Christensen 饰）在开车回家的路上遭遇严重车祸，救护人员到达后，便判定他没有生命迹象。没想到一个半小时后， 他却奇迹般地苏醒，并声称在自己失去意识的这段时间，见过天堂的全貌。 在友人的虔诚祈祷和妻子伊娃（凯特·波茨沃斯 Kate Bosworth 饰）的精心照料下，唐终于痊愈并开始新的生活。
　　本片改编自2004年纽约时报同名畅销书，由唐·派珀根据亲身经历所著。

 她，一位深陷瓶颈的作家，渴望着那个跟她截然不同的女孩，企图在她身上找寻灵感，沉溺在她的举手投足，于是，她踏上了一段布满爱恋、激情，或是毁灭的探索之旅…

　　Alex, is a twenty-something year old creative based in Manila. She is out to most people except her best friend- Jess who she has been secretly in love with since they were kids. When Jess discovers the truth about Alex, they are forced to confront the feelings they have for each other.

　　故事开始于1980年的东京，佐佐冈鲇子（优希美青 饰）是从东京来到冈山生活的转学生，因为浓重的口音，鲇子始终都无法顺利的融入到班级中去，班上的同学还因为她的口音给她取了“古怪佐佐冈”的外号。唯一能够安抚鲇子的心情的，就是她的男友秀穗（矢野圣人 饰），善于绘画的鲇子将自己和秀穗的恋爱小故事画成了漫画。
　　巧合的是，这本漫画被班上人气很高的女生秋本武美（足立梨花 饰）读到了，武美非常喜欢漫画里的情节，以此为契机，武美和鲇子之间结下了深厚的友谊。某日，鲇子和秀穗因为一场激烈的争吵而分手了，这让鲇子坠入了人生的低谷。

　　该片讲述了沿着高速公路休息站过露宿生活的一个家庭和偶然给予他们温暖的夫妇的相遇以及新的家庭诞生的故事。
　　罗美兰：饰演珍藏对儿子的思念的二手家具店的总经理；
　　丁一宇：饰演对家人非常关心的两个孩子的爸爸，同时也是一个家庭的家长；
　　金瑟祺：饰演和丈夫、两个孩子以及肚子里的孩子漫无目的地旅行的临盆孕妇；
　　白贤镇：饰演罗美兰的丈夫，虽然很冷漠，但是是比任何人都能理解妻子痛苦的帮手。

　　《狗咬狗》是关于三个刚出监狱正在适应平民生活的人。特洛伊（尼古拉斯•凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）是一位冷面的策划者，他寻求简单、干净的生活，但却始终逃脱不了他对体制的仇恨。迪塞尔是名匪徒，其兴趣全在他郊区的房子和爱唠叨的妻子身上。疯狗是三人中我行我素的那个，被内心的魔鬼所控制，总是惹是生非。
　　再干一笔，再赌一把，他们就会收手。特洛伊设计了一个完美的犯罪并且圆满完成，但接下来，他们发现无论走到哪里，法律都围绕着他们……

　　We sometimes have to wrestle with our own demons to find our true self.
　　4 Days tells the story of two school friends who slowly realize they mean more to each other than either had initially realized. 4 Days joins Derek and Mark in the days leading up to Valentine's Day over the course of a few years- charting the blossoming of a friendship in to something much more enduring as time goes on- and challenging both to question who they thought they were and who they truly want to me. Painting a moving picture of how an abiding friendship can sometimes lead to love- and how we sometimes have to wrestle with our own demons to find their true self, 4 Days is an achingly romantic and delicate teenage love story.
　　Lead actors Mikoy Morales and Sebastian Castro give exceptional, often heartbreaking performances in this thoughtful and patient romance ? wherein the awkward silences and furtive glances speak volumes.

　　16世纪在印加帝国毁灭后，一支西班牙征服者组成探险队，从秘鲁山脉南下至亚马逊河寻找黄金和财富。他们很快遇到了麻烦和危险，而阿奎尔，这个粗暴并贪婪的人成为了他们的领袖。他能够带领他们取得财富，还是将他们领向死亡？在此过程中，对西班牙的忠诚经受着考验，对权利的争夺也相继发生……

　　Min Ji-suk runs a "ticket bar"where customers can purchase tickets for certain "services"in the town of Sokcho in Gangwon-do. She hires Miss Yang (Ahn So-young), Miss Hong (Lee Hye-young), and Se-young (Jeon Se-young) through the employment agency. Miss Yang and Miss Hong, who are well experienced in this type of business, are used to accepting propositions from customers. But Se-young, who is dating a college student named Min-su, rejects all requests for sexual favors. When Min-su professes to having problems with his tuition and finances, Se-young reassures him that she will procure the necessary funds for him. When the bar's clientele begins to dwindle because of Se-young, Ji-suk reprimands her severely. Se-young develops a close relationship with a Captain Pak and even allows him to sleep with her. She asks Captain Pak to find Min-su employment on a boat, but when Min-su comes to Sokcho for his new job, he sees how Se-young has been making her living. Shocked, he turns his back on the job and leaves. When he eventually returns to Sokcho, he scathingly denounces Se-young's morality and severs their relationship. Decades ago, Ji-suk had stumbled into the bar business in a desperate effort to support her husband, who was serving time in prison; she later left him voluntarily out of shame and moral degradation. Concerned that Se-young will end up with the same fate, Ji-suk asks Min-su to meet with her. She begs him not to abandon Se-young, but he flatly refuses. Ji-suk reacts by pushing Min-su into the sea, and suffers a mental breakdown that lands her in a psychiatric institution.

　　Ok, folks, this is my last Ishii upload. Totsugeki! Hakata gurentai is his first feature and last 8mm film. Haven't watched it yet myself, but from the looks of it, this is very much reminescent of eighties and nineties v-cinema, sort of like early Miike (only made in 1978). There is considerably more dialogue than in his earlier films, but it doesn't seem too complicated plotwise.

　　The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”.  The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature.
　　The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)