特别的人

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

达子（长泽雅美）是一个ConfidenceMan，即信用欺诈师。她可以凭借自己的天才头脑和出类拔萃集中力在短时间内掌握各种艰涩难懂的专业知识。她长期居住在高档酒店的豪华套房，虽然天赋异禀却有着纯真马虎的一面。达子的搭档是小朋友（东出昌大），一个总是被她耍的团团转的性格谨慎的老好人，他总盼望着早日金盆洗手，光明磊落地生活。另一位搭档是拥有超一流变装技术，把自己与生俱来的好气质运用于骗术的理查德（小日向文世）。他们以纵横于各个行业，以花花世界作为他们的舞台，用各种异想天开的计划从利欲熏心的人们手中骗取钱财，是一部大快人心的喜剧。

宝（邓丽欣 饰）本来与男友俊（黄嘉乐 饰）一起经营甜品店，生意兴隆，两人也感情稳定。可是宝多年不见的旧同学琪琪（曾恺玹 饰），竟抢走了俊，破坏了宝的幸福生活。另一方面，宝的好友蚊（唐宁 饰）常常对男友风（胡清蓝 饰）发脾气，当风结识了已有男友的敏（杨爱瑾 饰）后，两人展开了一段“后备恋情”。蚊与风最终分手收场。后来宝结识了老千阿强（方力申 饰），宝给了强十万块要他帮忙报复琪琪。强成功的把琪琪吸引住了，更想通过强骗取俊的甜品店。期间，宝与强也产生了感情。宝相信强的本质不坏，更相信他能改过自身。不料事情还是被琪琪发现了，她愿意出更多的钱买通强，要宝再一次在她面前难堪。宝纵使被俊抛弃，但当她得知俊被琪琪骗了之后，还是回到他的身边与他再次开创甜品店。而琪琪也强的精心安排下，同样被骗了所有的钱，更负债累累。强不再行骗，却遭到了黑帮报复……

儿时被母亲抛弃的葛西泉（菅田将晖 饰）不得不放下心结，照顾着患有阿尔茨海默症的妈妈（原田美枝子 饰）。妈妈逐渐失忆，却经常奇怪地要求泉和妻子（长泽雅美 饰）带自己去看“半朵烟花”。随着妈妈的一次又一次走失，泉被抛弃压抑已久的情绪失控，母子矛盾彻底爆发。在妈妈生命最后的这段日子，泉最终发现了妈妈尘封许久的秘密……影片改编自川村元气同名原著小说，荣获第70届圣塞巴斯蒂安国际电影节最佳导演奖。