木下惠介遇上黑泽明的剧本，分明一部喜剧，越看下去越是人性和命运的交响曲。喜剧的前提和开篇，滑稽贪婪的房屋经纪要赶走租住其目标破房子的穷画家，跟情妇搬到画家楼上见步行步。不正经的情妇给楼下的开心快活人天天小姐前小姐后，叫得真以为自己是大家闺秀了，谁知烦恼就这么开始。当画家 的模特儿本是美事啊，给那眼睛望着真如沐在清澈河水里，但善良的眼神无声无息变了穿心箭，用心做小姐原来好痛苦。楼上叹世界楼下捱世界，孰是天国孰是地狱，就是吊诡。 @Summer IFF 2012From a script by his more widely recognised peer, Kurosawa Akira, Kinoshita Keisuke constructs a sensitive examination of an affluent but spiritually bankrupt real estate broker forced into a fresh outlook on life by an impoverished but enlightened artist. Intending to turn a tidy profit renovating a crumbling house, the broker tries to drive the artist and his family out of the home by moving his bawdy mistress into it. The plan starts to splinter when she agrees to sit for a portrait. Kinoshita deftly balances humour and drama for an astute reflection on art, reality, commerce, and fundamental humanism.

大批新移民涌入香港，他们当中不乏好勇斗狠之徙，不少与本地黑社会同流合污，但毕竟他们都被视为外人，称“大圈仔”。程志鹄（徐少强 饰）和程志鹏（关礼杰 饰）两兄弟是大陆新移民，与妹程少鸣（谢宁 饰）及妹夫志伟（刘家辉 饰）于七十年代中来港谋生；鹄因为有过人的胆色和身手，于黑道打出名堂，但“大圈仔”毕竟逃不出作为被利用者的厄运。在一次行动中鹄替老大顶罪入狱，他出狱后决心脱离黑道；而鹏在短短几年间步兄长的后尘……

A divorced New York cop takes his son on a ride along with him on Christmas Eve.

女大学生离奇坠楼，刚调任到岗的刑侦支队副队长成锐（周一围 饰）被副局长杜于林（王劲松 饰）指派追查背后隐情，发现案件与套路贷、暴力催讨等黑势力犯罪有关，本市企业家安亦明（曾志伟 饰）被列为重点侦查对象，成锐想进一步调查却被要求尽快结案，究竟是谁在充当“保护伞”？城市危机四伏，安亦明之妻周彤（秦海璐 饰）、经济学教授赵羡鱼（张智霖 饰）纷纷身陷其中，为了还人民安宁，成锐和同事们突破难关追踪到底，却不想背后还有更大阴谋。真相究竟为何？他们能否将隐藏在黑暗中的罪恶一扫而尽？