男女之战

杰克逊是一名驯马师。但在一次日常训练中，他不幸受伤，再也无法继续他的竞技生涯了。然而赛马是他精神的支柱，个性坚韧的杰克逊很快重新振作起来，开始对训练菜鸟骑师，最终，这名菜鸟骑师为杰克逊赢得了最后一个冠军。日落余晖，英雄落幕，新一代的一切已悄然开始。

一代大侠李慕白（周润发饰）有退出江湖之意，托付红颜知己俞秀莲（杨紫琼饰）将青冥剑转交给贝勒爷（郎雄饰）收藏，不料当夜遭玉娇龙（章子怡）窃取。俞秀莲暗中查访也大约知道是玉府小姐玉蛟龙所为，她想办法迫使玉蛟龙归还宝剑，免伤和气。但李慕白发现了害死师傅的碧眼狐狸（郑佩佩饰）的踪迹，她隐匿于玉府并收玉蛟龙为弟子。而玉蛟龙欲以青冥剑来斩断阻碍罗小虎（张震饰）的枷锁，他们私定终身。关系变得错综复杂，俞秀莲和李慕白爱惜玉蛟龙人才难得，苦心引导，但玉蛟龙却使性任气不听劝阻……

洛拉（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）同老板波特（保罗·道格拉斯 Paul Douglas 饰）结了婚，婚后，洛拉才发现波特对自己的海誓山盟全是谎言，他不过将自己当做了摇钱树。瑞塔（Ann Sothern饰）则要强悍的多，凭借着剧本写作收入不菲，甚至快要赶上了丈夫乔治（柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰）。洛拉（琳达·达内尔 Linda Darnell 饰）拥有过人的美貌，却依然生活在怀疑和困惑之中。 某日，三位太太带着孩子们正在野餐，一封未写收件人的信不期而至，写信的是名叫艾迪（西莱斯特·霍姆 Celeste Holm 饰）的女人，信上说她即将和三位太太其中一位的丈夫远走高飞，而三个女人却并不知道究竟是谁被背叛了。

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.