冈本杏理

一对夫妇在墨西哥度假时与另一对夫妇相遇，看到他们的友谊在回家后发生了尴尬的转折。

一件无价之宝被盗后，玛格丽特女王和史黛西公主向长得酷似女王的皇室表亲菲奥娜求援。这名作风大胆的女郎将和一位神秘潇洒的老相识搭档以寻回失物，没想到两人在甜蜜浪漫的圣诞氛围中重新擦出火花，并引发了一次出人意料的对换。

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.

暑假，七岁的宁宁被送回乡下，由七十多岁的爷爷李福长照顾。李福长偶然间得到了一个老朋友的联系方式，老友身体中风，时日无多。他决定带上孙子，骑着一辆摩托三轮车，去千里之外看望老友。影片以“过昭关”喻指人生，是难得一见的中国乡村公路片。