大海绵是一个生活在中国西部小城的少年，他早早脱离了体制教育，离开父母，独自生活。他在街头四处游荡，漫无目的地度过一个又一个漫长的夜晚，兴致来时即兴而唱，生活自由而孤寂。大海绵热爱说唱音乐，有极高的音乐天赋，他用音乐回应对生活的感悟和不满，但现实并不能让他有所作为，他在网络上喜欢了一个女孩，女孩嫌弃他肥胖，追求总是遭拒。游荡的生活终于脱轨，他无意中参与了一起盗窃案，惹上了官司，法院的压力和生活的困局使他再也无法忍受，为了给自己的人生赢得机会，他尝试做出改变……

关玉明（成龙 饰）和女儿小凡（梁佩诗 饰）在英国伦敦过着相依为命的日子。关玉明经营着一间小小的餐馆，老老实实的靠着辛勤劳作养活家庭，从未有过想要僭越法律或是道德的念头。然而，上天并不眷顾这个善良的男人，在一场恐怖袭击中，小凡不幸成为了受害者之一。让关玉明无法接受的除了女儿的死之外，还有英国政府对此次事件的轻视和不作为。政府高官莱姆（皮尔斯·布鲁斯南 Pierce Brosnan 饰）出现在了关玉明的视野之中，他坚信莱姆和恐怖组织以及事件的真相有着不可分割的联系。既然法律和正义无法还关玉明一个公道，关玉明决定用自己的力量来为女儿复仇。

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

郭南宏涉足武侠片领域是在《龙门客栈》在台湾掀起武侠片热潮之后。郭南宏虽然十年来都是执导文艺片，却应时改变风格，导演了武侠片《一代剑王》，影片由台湾首席武侠明星田鹏和上官灵凤主演，结果一鸣惊人。这部票房大卖的武侠片使郭南宏成为继张彻、胡金诠之后，香港电影市场上第三位“百万导演”。影片也成为台湾国语武侠电影的代表作之一。《一代剑王》是部没有明确时代背景的古装刀剑武侠片，在这部片里，他起用了当时的影坛新人田鹏担任第一男主角。影片讲述武林各派之间的恩怨，故事比较俗套，但是由于武打设计是按照《大醉侠》等新派武侠的路子来走，将北派动作和日本武士片的武打动作相结合，观众倒也看着新鲜有趣。