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讲述了结婚多年并育有一子的戏剧导演查理和女演员妮可因工作分居而不得不走向离婚，在这场为了争夺抚养权的离婚拉锯战中，关于爱情、婚姻和家庭真实感人的细枝末节牵动人心。两人的关系又将何去何从？

死刑犯 A，殺害好友後勒贖。死刑犯陳昱安，砍殺父親 111 刀。死刑犯鄭捷，於捷運上隨機殺人。「死 刑犯」是司法給他們的一個標籤，但這三個人作為 人的身分卻為人漠視，而至親所背負之痛，更從來 無人知曉⋯⋯。曾以紀錄片《起點》、《我無罪，我是鄭性澤》長 期關注司法議題的導演李家驊，這次選擇了三位犯 行各異的死刑犯為主角，有人尚在服刑，有人在獄 中自戕身亡，有人已遭到槍決伏法。在「殺人償命」 的正義大纛前，他們的命運殊途同歸，宛如報廢的 物件，但在律師、死囚家屬面前，標籤之後卻是一 個個血肉之軀。全片以平實的採訪片段與報導影像， 不拘泥於法條本身，而是深刻表達了導演對「人」 的處境的關懷，爬梳現代台灣司法死刑史之餘，也 引出了對現行體制的叩問。

*Shinjuku Mad* was one ofKoji Wakamatsu's six films from 1970. Grim and gritty, stark and steady, burdened with anti-moralizing, generously padded with sex, and totally redeemed by a soundtrack that needs to be released NOW. I knew nothing about this film, loading it up on to my laptop, and every last one of this film's sixty-sixty minutes kept me riveted.Bear with me. The film opens with the band cycling through a jazzy rave-up, the black and images depict dead Japanese throughout a modern city. From the alleyways of the slums, to center of the park, you catch glimpses of bodies everywhere. This introduction is capped off by a lingering shot of a blood-soaked naked woman, face down. By this point, the band has reached a sort of peak. There's a cut, the band changes the direction of the song a bit, and then we're treated to a series of exterior shots from downtown, the lunch hour, maybe. You see a lot of storefronts and stairwells, people moving about. All of the people in these splices are done in negative image.What follows can only be described as harrowing. After the credits, the reel switches to color. We're treated to the on-screen stabbing of a young man in a toga, his attackers strip his special lady-friend of her toga, spend about two minutes smearing her breasts with still-warm blood, and then take turns raping her. She doesn't seem to put up much of a fight. The scene is lensed with all of the enthusiasm of a television spot for a whole foods market.Well, that's a fucked up way to start a movie. If you're still reading, I'll have you know the brutality eases up a little, but the camera's tendency to seek out each scene's more lurid details is relentless. The band never lets up, either. Another constant feature of the film is the protagonist's alienation from society. That's a pretty dated-concept, in a way. This film is cashing in on what could loosely be called the Existential demographic in 1970's Japan. Parts of it could have been written by Oe. Others by Mishima. It definitely, at times, addresses a bit of that lingering air of revolution, but more on that later.The father of the kid stabbed in Technicolor shows up in the nest reel, in the same apartment his son was murdered in. This confused, grieving father asks a totally baked Shoko Asahara for information about the events leading up to his son's death. The long-haired no-goodnik is toking on a Sharpie-sized doobie. He gets so fucking high he passes out and the dad is left there in the empty apartment, getting a major contact-buzz.So, the plot is basically that kind of exchange in larger and larger settings, intercut with glorious shots of the disillusioned father walking through industrial slums. The father, searching for the "Why" to his son's death goes on his quest and pisses just about everyone he comes into contact with off. He goes into subway stations and totally kills some beatniks' buzzes. Then he bullies a Hare Krishna ROCK AND ROLL SUPERSTAR and his belly-dancing percussionist at a park. Then he heads off to a bar, and we're treated to what must have been Tokyo's Greatest Garage Band getting low-down and sleazy here. This scene pretty much sums up what the film is about. As you dig the scuzz and the fuzz, the camera catches all manner of degeneracy and wanton reefer-use. And the bar has no less than three groups of people making out. And they get excessive with the groping.Eventually, the father catches the ringleader of the vicious band of murderer-rapists. "Shinjuku Mad," is his name. After an unbelievably long and convoluted exchange between the protagonist and Shinjuku Mad, it comes out that Mad and the boys are rebelling against all of Japan. It's open season on everyone but them. His son was only a casualty, nothing personal. Their intent is to go on rebelling against society through random acts of violence against people and property.After going through all the trouble of finding Shinjuku Mad, the old man's mind is blown by revolution for revolution's sake. After a few pummellings, he manages to turn the fight around. He winds up leaving with a nude girl that had been tied to a post for the entire scene.He goes back to the apartment his son was murdered in to find his special lady-friend naked with six other dope-smoking cats grooving on free love and blue balls.He decides he's happier with Shinjuku Mad alive and kicking, the band is at another one of its high points, and the camera pans out to the railroad yard, telephones wires, and the bare sides of modern buildings.That was Japan, thirty-seven years ago.

食品公司总务部长三浦安雄在公司的迎送会上穿女装，体验到前所未有的解放感。一开始是偷偷地试着女装和化妆的，但是对同一性障碍的前辈椿说“你想穿女装吗？你想作为女性活下去吗？”被问到“想成为女性”的心情高涨。在心理诊所被诊断为“性别不协调”的安雄，下决心向妻子小薰告白，但是混乱的小薰完全否定。被命令扔掉女装道具的安雄，将其运到了附近的行李箱间。有一天，安雄对公司轻视女性的做法感到愤慨，不顾后辈小春的反对，用邮件通知“我是性同一性障碍”。在更衣室里穿女装，开始了“作为女性”的工作生活。但是，被“カオリ”发现了，公司也因为上司的捐款而调动地方工作。安雄到底能不能兼顾“作为女人生活的道路”和“与所爱的家人生活”呢……？！