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二战结束后不久，日本南海惊现离奇事件，打捞船荣子丸在平静的海面上突然遇难，幸存者寥寥，前去搜救的宾果丸也一去不返。不久，南海附近的岛屿大户岛遭受到恐怖的袭击，岛上的老人声称这便是传说中的怪兽哥斯拉作怪。古生物专家山根京平教授受命前往调查，根据现场遗留的痕迹断定，这个怪物是200万年前侏罗纪时代存活下来的恐龙，并且在原子弹辐射的影响下，化身为更具破坏力的恐怖怪兽。该论断一经公布，便在日本国内引起轩然大波。政客和军队纷纷行动，意欲置哥斯拉于死地。而哥斯拉也闯入东京，进行一场毁灭性的破坏。人类的命运悬于一线……本片根据香山滋的科幻小说改编。

阿雄（郭富城 饰）在暑假期间在游艇会打工，在往返宿舍的路上有一幅巨型海报，报中人Michelle（关之琳 饰）正是阿雄梦中情人的模样，雄便常常幻想能与情人甜蜜约会。帅气的雄使许多女孩子神魂颠倒，但他仍然钟情于美丽的Michelle。没想到梦中情人会出现在阿雄的面前，两人渐渐熟络，阿雄生活中处处帮忙Michelle。但Michelle觉得与对方的身份地位十分悬殊，关系无法进一步发展。

一伙盗墓贼无意间触动古巴比伦遗址的封印，唤醒了沉睡4000年之久的吸血魔（桥本力 饰）。吸血魔携着狂风暴雨来到江户时期的日本，杀害伊豆地区长官并附身其上，混进官府。人类无法识破吸血魔的伪装，只有住在官府池塘内的河童（黑木现 饰）看清其真身，但实力悬殊，无法取胜。吸血魔嗜血如狂，甚至残害儿童。河童集结其他妖怪反击，一度占居上风。吸血魔伺机逃跑，不久卷土重来，变本加厉为害人间。为了保护日本，河童等召集了全日本海•陆•空的百万妖怪，誓要将吸血魔彻底打败。本片拍摄于1968年，与《东海道惊魂》、《妖怪百物语》并称为“大映妖怪三部曲”。2005年由三池崇史重新翻拍。

Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.