曾是一位金融才俊的阿博（Bowen），终日在24小时快餐店借宿，店内有不少同路人与阿博为伍，相互改写了各自的人生。分别有一直为奶奶还债而债台高筑的妈妈带着囡囡、不敢回家的等伯、刚离家出走的少年深仔，还有暂居庇护宿舍的歌女阿珍都以阿博为首，各人互相扶持，希望能尽力帮助彼此走过人生低谷…..

Movie 'PROPAGANDA' originally premiered theatrically throughout Japan in 1984 and is considered by some to be the best visual work from 'Y.M.O.'

民国十一年，溥仪（姜文 饰）与婉容（潘虹 饰）结婚。1932年，溥仪与婉容在日寇挟持下来到长春伪满洲国“执政”，做起了日本人的傀儡。由于受人挟持与监视，溥仪的日子不好过，婉容更是度日如年，她跟溥仪完全没有正常的夫妻生活，毎日靠吸食鸦片麻醉自已。她的苦衷引起侍卫李越亭（刘威 饰）同情，不久，二人越轨致婉容怀孕。太监李长安（正华 饰）发觉后密报溥仪，溥仪闻讯雷霆大怒，他把婉容打入冷宫，并把李越亭折磨致死，婉容知道后精神失常。数日后，溥仪迎娶中学生谭玉玲（傅艺伟 饰），并封其为“祥贵人”。但生性正直的谭玉玲这时却引起了日本人的注意......

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 .