帝国双璧

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.

一位年轻女子背负着难以想象的责任。一位在爱情和荣誉之间挣扎的年轻人。一位嫉妒的国王，为了保住自己的王冠，不惜一切代价。在这场为全家人举办的圣诞音乐庆祝活动，将经典的圣诞旋律融入新的流行歌曲中，以音乐的方式重述了玛丽和约瑟夫以及耶稣诞生的永恒故事。

《那日下午》全片就是蔡明亮與李康生在一个废墟里的对谈收录，展现了两人二十多年的友谊。该片入围2015年72届威尼斯电影节非竞赛展映单元。

简介：由一般市民选出来的１２个陪审员，互相也不认识，开始审案子，有罪无罪要全体一致通过才行，多数时候会一致说无罪。不过由其中一个人对无罪的根据的质问引起了混乱，有罪的可能性也是存在的，于是一轮一轮的讨论起来，并没有习惯此种议论的“温柔的”这群人，会怎么进行困难的人对人的裁判呢？最终这１２人能不能得到一致的结论呢？