卢浮宫博物馆馆长被人杀害在卢浮宫内，临死前他费力的留下骇人的符号，从而惊动了符号专家罗伯特·兰登（汤姆·汉克斯）。在破案过程中，兰登结识了死者的孙女，索菲（奥黛丽·塔图），俩人几次遇险，九死一生，逐渐产生爱慕之情。随着案情的深入，他们渐渐发现这起谋杀案后隐藏着天大的秘密，甚至牵连到隐匿多年的神秘组织——峋山隐修会。兰登按图索骥，发现所有的解密的密码都藏在达芬奇的作品中，而最让人震惊的是，索菲的身世一时间随之复杂起来，她究竟是谁？峋山隐修会再现江湖想要达到什么目的？

二战虽然结束，但它所遗留下的问题还余波震荡。美苏两大集团为了各自的利益在朝鲜半岛争端骤起，让企盼和平、渴望建立民主自由政府的朝鲜人民的愿望落空。国家分裂，战争再次降临，民族的苦难愈加深重。破巢之下，安有完卵。在一个名叫筏桥的村庄，南北双方展开了拉锯战，村民则成为权力更迭过程中的牺牲品。村中的尚九（金甲洙 饰）和尚珍（金明坤 饰）两兄弟分属南北两个阵营，为了各自的信仰，他们付出了沉重的代价……本片根据韩国同名历史小说改编，并荣获1994年青龙奖最佳影片奖。

孤独地离开人世的母亲福子（金海淑饰）与无意送别母亲的女儿珍珠（申敏儿饰），她们的重逢得益于母亲获得上天给予的“休假”。母亲在从阴间便一起同行的向导带领下，开始了限期三天的旅行。母亲在这期间一直观察著女儿，女儿虽然看不到母亲却能感受到她就在自己的身边徘徊。这对母女获得了新的沟通机会，她们回顾了过去的时光，也分享了现在的苦乐，一起度过梦幻般的时间。

*Shinjuku Mad* was one ofKoji Wakamatsu's six films from 1970. Grim and gritty, stark and steady, burdened with anti-moralizing, generously padded with sex, and totally redeemed by a soundtrack that needs to be released NOW. I knew nothing about this film, loading it up on to my laptop, and every last one of this film's sixty-sixty minutes kept me riveted.Bear with me. The film opens with the band cycling through a jazzy rave-up, the black and images depict dead Japanese throughout a modern city. From the alleyways of the slums, to center of the park, you catch glimpses of bodies everywhere. This introduction is capped off by a lingering shot of a blood-soaked naked woman, face down. By this point, the band has reached a sort of peak. There's a cut, the band changes the direction of the song a bit, and then we're treated to a series of exterior shots from downtown, the lunch hour, maybe. You see a lot of storefronts and stairwells, people moving about. All of the people in these splices are done in negative image.What follows can only be described as harrowing. After the credits, the reel switches to color. We're treated to the on-screen stabbing of a young man in a toga, his attackers strip his special lady-friend of her toga, spend about two minutes smearing her breasts with still-warm blood, and then take turns raping her. She doesn't seem to put up much of a fight. The scene is lensed with all of the enthusiasm of a television spot for a whole foods market.Well, that's a fucked up way to start a movie. If you're still reading, I'll have you know the brutality eases up a little, but the camera's tendency to seek out each scene's more lurid details is relentless. The band never lets up, either. Another constant feature of the film is the protagonist's alienation from society. That's a pretty dated-concept, in a way. This film is cashing in on what could loosely be called the Existential demographic in 1970's Japan. Parts of it could have been written by Oe. Others by Mishima. It definitely, at times, addresses a bit of that lingering air of revolution, but more on that later.The father of the kid stabbed in Technicolor shows up in the nest reel, in the same apartment his son was murdered in. This confused, grieving father asks a totally baked Shoko Asahara for information about the events leading up to his son's death. The long-haired no-goodnik is toking on a Sharpie-sized doobie. He gets so fucking high he passes out and the dad is left there in the empty apartment, getting a major contact-buzz.So, the plot is basically that kind of exchange in larger and larger settings, intercut with glorious shots of the disillusioned father walking through industrial slums. The father, searching for the "Why" to his son's death goes on his quest and pisses just about everyone he comes into contact with off. He goes into subway stations and totally kills some beatniks' buzzes. Then he bullies a Hare Krishna ROCK AND ROLL SUPERSTAR and his belly-dancing percussionist at a park. Then he heads off to a bar, and we're treated to what must have been Tokyo's Greatest Garage Band getting low-down and sleazy here. This scene pretty much sums up what the film is about. As you dig the scuzz and the fuzz, the camera catches all manner of degeneracy and wanton reefer-use. And the bar has no less than three groups of people making out. And they get excessive with the groping.Eventually, the father catches the ringleader of the vicious band of murderer-rapists. "Shinjuku Mad," is his name. After an unbelievably long and convoluted exchange between the protagonist and Shinjuku Mad, it comes out that Mad and the boys are rebelling against all of Japan. It's open season on everyone but them. His son was only a casualty, nothing personal. Their intent is to go on rebelling against society through random acts of violence against people and property.After going through all the trouble of finding Shinjuku Mad, the old man's mind is blown by revolution for revolution's sake. After a few pummellings, he manages to turn the fight around. He winds up leaving with a nude girl that had been tied to a post for the entire scene.He goes back to the apartment his son was murdered in to find his special lady-friend naked with six other dope-smoking cats grooving on free love and blue balls.He decides he's happier with Shinjuku Mad alive and kicking, the band is at another one of its high points, and the camera pans out to the railroad yard, telephones wires, and the bare sides of modern buildings.That was Japan, thirty-seven years ago.