蔡明亮受邀为纪念普契尼一五○周年诞辰，回马来西亚拍摄短片《蝴蝶夫人》。 蔡明亮的新版《蝴蝶夫人》，比大家熟悉的经典故事更悲惨：一个女人在宾馆与人上床，男人没付钱就跑了，她只好自己付钱，并因此身无分文地流落车站，等待不知是谁会来拯救她。

由于两年前揭发同僚贪污，台北警官黄火土（梁家辉）被上级报复调入冷门的外事组工作，利益也曾连带受损的新同事对他怒言相向，加上妻子清芳（刘若英）受不了他长期不回家要求离婚，黄火土感觉他的世界正在逐渐四分五裂。就在此时，三宗受害者的身份并无关联的震惊了台湾社会的离奇命案发生，法医（杨贵媚）验尸发现他们都是因中一种神秘的黑霉菌产生幻觉而死，因为缺乏此方面的人才，当局从美国请来此种案例的侦办专家凯文莱特（David Morse）协助破案，黄火土重被任用。随着一桩令所有人都目瞪口呆的事实的被发现，一场围绕政治利益与民众利益的斗争也在黄火土和办案伙伴李丰博（戴立忍）及整个警察队伍之间展开。

1999年夏天，一位名叫达拉斯·凯尔的12岁男孩拍摄到传说中的蛙人的镜头，但没有人相信这是真的。二十年后，达拉斯现在是一名业余电影制作人，努力将自己的热情转化为职业，他与朋友回到拉夫兰，决心获得无可辩驳的证据证明蛙人存在。但是，当达拉斯揭开隐藏在洛夫兰田园诗般的表 面之下的可怕秘密时，这部纪录片很快就变成了洛夫克拉夫特式的噩梦。

It's 1846. Sweeney Todd and Anthony Hope, greeted only by a crazed beggar woman, sail into London, where Todd implies he has been before but not in quite some time. Todd heads to his old stomping grounds of Fleet Street, where he runs across the pie shop belonging to Mrs. Nellie Lovett, who professes to make the worst meat pies in London due to the high cost of meat. The upstairs of her building has sat empty since no one wants to rent a space that is considered haunted by its long ago tenant, barber Benjamin Barker who was falsely accused and ultimately sentenced by the sadistic Judge Turpin and who was shipped away to prison in Australia, leaving his wife Lucy and infant daughter Johanna alone in the world. Todd comes to an agreement with Mrs. Lovett to rent the upstairs of her building so that he can open his own barber shop. A series of incidents, including one with rival barber Senor Pirelli, make Todd change his focus slightly away from having a choice encounter with Judge ... Written by Huggo