在苍茫的崇山峻岭身处，寂静保守的村落里，生活着一位美丽姑娘山雀儿（茹萍 饰）。她天真烂漫，纯真无邪，每日里和好姐妹们追逐玩耍，更和和铁匠铁头（赵君 饰）相知相恋。怎奈山雀儿的母亲余三娘（澹台仁慧 饰）根本不同意这桩婚事，执拗地要将她嫁给家境宽绰的强二（杜伟业 饰）。山雀儿抵死不从，但最终胳膊扭不过大腿。没有爱情的婚姻怎能长久，她向强二提出退婚，而善良且读过高中的强二最终答应了她的请求。为了偿还刁家的彩礼，山雀儿只能收拾好行囊，走出大山去城里打工。在王教授的家里，山雀儿的文化逐步提高，而铁头在村里也变得富裕起来。他们似乎朝着美好的婚姻迈进，可是两人的关系再度发生了变化……

In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.

1993年，山田洋次導演的《學校》在日本本士引起極大迴響，不僅贏得好評如潮，更在各大頒獎禮中獨領風騷。延續篇《學校II》將舞台移師至北海道一間供智障學童入讀的高中，但仍舊以刻劃帥生關係及反思教育意義為核心主題。山田在片中寄托了他對學校及老師們的期望：教育並非只靈培育老師心目中的好學生，老師的工作也並非只是教學，更重要的是跟學生建立深厚的關係。全片溫情洋溢，值得細味。The Learning Circle, a film by Yamada Yoji and a follow-up to his 1993 hit A Class To Remember, is a moving story about the daily life of teachers and students at a high school for mentally-handicapped children. In this film, Yamada has depicted vividly and with genuine emotion the dreams and expectations he has for all schools and teacher: "Education is much more than merely minting students who are easy for schools and teachers to handle. A teacher's job is more than just teaching and guiding students, it is also to associate closely with them."新學年又開始了。在北海道一間專供智障學童入讀的高中，青山龍平老師正在迎接新生。當中一位名叫高志的學生智商不算低，但過去曾受同學欺侮，心靈創傷使他從此一言不發。另一位學生佑矢就更是問題多多。他總是不肯乖乖坐著，一時大呼小叫，一時又像一枝箭似的飛奔出課室；問他甚麼也好，答案就衹有一個：午後紅茶－他最喜愛的飲料。資深老師也拿他沒法，於是把佑矢交給新到任的小林老師看管，害得他沒一刻能放鬆，差點得了神經衰弱。直到一天，一件前所未有的事發生了：佑矢忽然跳了起來，想要搶奪北川老師手中的文稿。這時，一直沒開口說過一句話的高志忽然疾言厲色地罵他。更令人意外的是郤是佑矢的反應──他第一次順著別人的意思去做。自那一天起，學校有了重大的改變，不僅是學生，老師也一樣……資料來源︰電影雙周刊—Home Entertainment DVD (香港)

In this Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought isn't necessarily so happy after all.