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黑田藩藩主齐隆侯将宠爱的妃子生的女儿滨千代公主假扮男孩，秘密继承储君之位。菩提寺住持慈善和黑锹忍者得知此事，写作秘函送往江户。拜一刀（若山富三郎 饰）受黑田藩所托，追赶主持抢夺秘函。途中拜一刀遭遇黑田藩忍者不知火（安田道代 饰），从其口中察觉事件背后的秘密。秘函抢夺成 功，柳生烈堂（大木实 饰）派出大量刺客截杀，但全部死在拜一刀手下。黑田藩重臣肋天将监斥责齐隆侯用女儿继任储君，意欲杀其谋反。受不知火所托的拜一刀由此卷入这场继嗣风波之中……

身为一名杀手，罗伯特（西尔维斯特·史泰龙 Sylvester Stallone 饰）有着自己不可动摇的原则，那就是除了任务目标外，决不滥杀无辜。尽管与罗伯特是同行，但米高（安东尼奥·班德拉斯 Antonio Banderas 饰）的生死观却和罗伯特大相径庭，他不仅为了达成目的不择手段，更是将业内“德高望重”的罗伯特视作眼中钉肉中刺，欲除之而后快。充满了杀戮的生活令罗伯特感到厌倦，他决心再干最后一票，从此金盆洗手。很快，技术高超的罗伯特便捉住了目标任务——一名叫伊莉（朱丽安·摩尔 Julianne Moore 饰）的女贼，不幸的是，此时的伊莉和她手中价值两百万美元的磁盘亦成为了米高的猎物。随着时间的推移，罗伯特渐渐的爱上了伊莉，与此同时，残暴的米高也离他们越来越近。

在远离喧嚣的崇山峻岭之中，原始密林中央，贝拉（克里斯汀·斯图尔特Kristen Stewart 饰）与爱人爱德华（罗伯特·帕丁森 Robert Pattinson 饰）以及友人们展开难得的幸福生活。贝拉正在学习控制体内躁动的吸血鬼欲望，因为她即将面对那个她和爱人共同孕育出来的小生命蕾妮斯梅。一切都得到修复与改善，小女孩在父母长辈的呵护下快乐成长。但是她们离群索居的秘密最终被艾瑞娜（玛姬·格蕾斯 Margaret Grace 饰）窥见。传说吸血鬼孩童因心智不成熟容易带来难以预料的灾难，因此必须被族人残酷抹杀。听取了艾瑞娜的报告，远在意大利的沃尔图里家族渐次逼近。贝拉坚信女儿绝非血族，云集世界各地的库仑家族与狼族相继云集密林木屋，一场史无前例的战争即将展开……

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.