一个关于竞争与自我牺牲的爱情故事，发生于明治末期。三弦琴艺人鹤八与民谣歌家鹤次郎是一个传统音乐组合。不过他们常常争吵。他们分开了，鹤次郎却无法靠自己兴旺。他们就又复合了，但当鹤次郎发现鹤八陷入一场恋爱之中时，便故意与她争执到分崩离析的地步，好让她安心去结婚。

Alice（杨千嬅 饰）虽然其貌不扬，但是心地善良，家中四代都是开设跌打馆，身为记者的她也精通中医术。因为她效力的杂志《淑女》，被《绅士》杂志收购了，继而她认识了该杂志的副主编Ryan（古天乐 饰）。Ryan看上去英俊潇洒，但实际上身体虚弱。两人刚开始有些误会，当误会冰释后两人成为了朋友。Alice也暗暗喜欢上了Ryan，毫不知情的Ryan告诉Alice自己对名作家Michelle（陈慧珊 饰）一见钟情。身为Michelle忠实读者的Alice开始帮助Ryan追求梦中情人，而Alice只好默默守在Rayn的身边……

香帅楚留香（狄龙 饰）刺杀八皇爷（井淼 饰）失败，遭到了朝廷的通缉和追杀，无奈之中，楚留香来到了幽灵山庄，找到了那里的当家老鹰（谷峰 饰）。隐匿在幽灵山庄里的，全都是和楚留香一样身陷困境的大侠和高手，楚留香之后，独孤美（杨志卿 饰）和柳长街（顾冠忠 饰）接连抵达。经过连番的试炼，老鹰终于相信了楚留香的忠诚。可实际上，楚留香和八皇爷设了一个局，亦在将企图造反的幽灵山庄众人捉拿归案。在此过程中，楚留香发现胆小如鼠嗜赌成性的胡斐竟然也是八皇爷派到这里来的卧底，两人一拍即合，相互照应。一番混战之后，老鹰逃走，而他的真实面目，至今无人知晓。

This film is about haunting memories of Asia's late 20th-century modernization. The story departs from a 1965 United States embargo on the hair trade, known as the "Communist Hair Ban". Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.Wigs were vital for the rise of the Asian economy in the post-war era. In the heyday of the 1960s, it was the number four export in Hong Kong's export-orientated industrialization. Between Mao's China - the largest source of hair supplies, and the insatiable Western market, Hong Kong functioned as the gateway. In 1965, U.S. Treasury Department imposed an embargo on "Asiatic hair", to cut off foreign currency to Communist China in the hair trade. The highly racialized category of "Asiatic hair" was later revised as "communist hair", to enable the wig industry to develop in U.S. allies including mainly South Korea and Japan, which led to a significant reconfiguration of light industry in East Asia. Departing from the moment of the communist hair ban, through stories of movement, diaspora and migration, this project examines the role of Hong Kong as a transient space that mediates and sanitizes the connection between different worlds, and the relationship between U.S. Imperialism and East Asia order in the Cold War era.Produced by: Ruoyao Jane YaoDirector of Photography: Yavuz Selim IslerCameraman (Hong Kong): Fai WanSound Recording: Franco van der LindeCasting Director: Sai-wang LauMakeup: Ika KartikaColor Grading: Bob LemmVoice-over:Jia Zhao, Hamza Junaid, Tommy TseCast:Zoenie Liwen Deng, Ruoyao Jane Yao, Zoe Tang, Michael de Ross, Sidney Vereycken, Sai-wang Lau, Jo-Lene OngProduced by:Geodesic Studio, Vines FilmsThanks toWAAG Society, Amsterdam16mm Film Transfer and ScanningAndec Filmtechnik, Berlin