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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake 1965 16mm film 90minsThis was the first attempt to cinematize the works of Irish author James Joyce. Based more on a stage adaptation by Mary Manning than the Joyce novel itself, the film concentrates on Dublin pubkeeper Finnegan (Martin J. Kelly), who while in the throes of inebriation has a vision of his own death. As the bemused Finnegan lies in his coffin, his friends gather for his wake. The "corpse" tries to cut through the keening and platitudes by probing the innermost thoughts of those closest to him. The surprising aspect of this film is that so much of its difficult text works on screen--a tribute to the loving care of scripter/director/ editor Mary Ellen Bute, who, while preparing this film spent her waking hours picking the brains and burrowing through the resource materials of the James Joyce Society.Although director Mary Ellen Bute’s highly regarded Finnegans Wake (aka Passages from Finnegans Wake) is a unique film that is likely to baffle anyone unfamiliar with James Joyce, it cannot be dismissed merely as a literary exercise. The director was right in claiming that her film was “not a translation of the book but a reaction to it”. It is actually based on a stage play by Mary Manning, who was also responsible for the screenplay. Joyce’s elliptical rhetoric and intricate punning, which might be considered a formidable barrier to the filming of this most opaque of his works, proved to be an attraction to Bute, whose enthusiasm for the ‘visual’ and ‘kinetic’ quality of his language led her to the surprising but well-judged move of running subtitles from the original text to support the dialogue.Visual music pioneer Mary Ellen Bute's final film was also her first feature film. James Joyce's classic story of Irish tavern-keeper who dreams of attending his own wake is brought to the screen with a sparkling energy which highlights its maker's career-long exploration of kinetic abstract animation. Perhaps best described as a 'film poem,' Passages from Finnegans Wake was the first attempt to 'cinematize' the works of James Joyce, featuring the author's highly original language spoken by characters and presented as text on screen.

美丽的铃村亚佐美（小川亜佐美 饰）是供职于东京某公司的白领，她的生活波澜不惊，按时上下班，和好姐妹们闲聊家长里短。亚佐美的母亲早年去世，多年来和父亲耕平（日野道夫 饰）相依为命。24岁的她至今还未成家，耕平为了女儿的婚事分外焦急，积极为她物色对象，然亚佐美却始终不为所动。另一方面，亚佐美和公司的科长长期维持着不伦之恋，彼此纠缠不清。公司内30岁的单身女青年泉田驹子（中島葵 饰）开放爽朗，绯闻频出，被内部人称作“公共汽车”，但她何尝不期盼一段美好的恋情。在去亚佐美家共度30岁生日时，驹子和耕平一见钟情，更到了谈婚论家的地步。这突如其来的变故，令亚佐美备感失落……

《小饰和洋子》：虽然双胞胎姐妹小饰和洋子（小林凉子 分饰）有着同样的面容，但是妈妈（松田美由纪 饰）却更加偏爱前者，洋子感到自己随时都会被妈妈杀掉；《七个房间》姐姐（市川由衣 饰）和弟弟智司（须贺健太 饰）被人关在紧闭的房间内，相似的房间还有6间，每间都有一个女人。邪恶的男人每天杀掉一人，从不间断；《So Far》：似乎一场车祸，让原本冷淡的夫妻互相看不到对方，坚信对方已经死去。儿子（神木隆之介 饰）在他们中间充当传声筒，渐渐感到自己的灵魂深处开始撕裂；《向阳之诗》男子（龙坐 配音）制造出了美丽的女孩（铃木かすみ 配音），只希望她有朝一日将其埋葬；《动物园》他（村上淳 饰）在废弃的动物园杀了要分手的她（浜崎茜 饰），并每天为尸体拍摄照片，诡异的事情随即发生……本片根据乙一的短篇原作改编。

影片由六个风格迥异的故事组成，讲述一群人在除夕当日发生的一连串奇遇囧事。在新年的前夜，或是团聚、或是旅行，人们选择不同的方式度过这充满仪式感的时刻，而剧中的主角们却在旅程中遭遇着各种意外，有被逼婚的、有流落异乡的、也有暴发户装逼遭“雷劈”的。在一串令人爆笑的旅程意外后，人生的答案充满希望的出现在他们面前，在笑泪相伴的故事背后，却是充满真挚情感的惊喜。