来自新泽西的汤姆（Joseph Gordon-Levitt约瑟夫?高登-莱维特 饰）是一个沉溺于英伦哀歌与《毕业生》情境的年轻人。他供职于一家贺卡公司，任务是撰写富有创意的祝辞。某次会议上，汤姆的老板把新助理介绍给大家，她是来自密歇根的魅力女孩莎莫（Zooey Deschanel 佐伊?丹斯切尔 饰）。莎莫自幼父母离异，因此对于感情的态度与众不同。汤姆和莎莫没有一见钟情，但却在一次酒吧K歌后彼此示好，成了非典型的恋人。而且这段办公室恋情迅速升温，爱火烧得谁都无法预料。最后，在一个餐馆里，莎莫对汤姆说了绝情的分手。深陷情网的汤姆，经受不住失恋的打击，郁郁寡欢，周围的伙伴们希望帮他走出阴影，然而，这并不是故事的全部，本片以汤姆的视角把时间重新组接，让观众在对比中体味500天恋爱的弦外之音……

故事发生在当代的上海。陆敏（肖博 饰）是一名面临高考的高中生，由于没有显赫的家庭背景，能否考取重点大学，将来找份好的工作，成了他当前心中的最大负担。他妈妈芳芳（宋丹丹 饰）是典型的上海家庭妇女，过日子精打细算，毎天热衷于参加电视台各种有奖知识竞赛，家里大到冰箱洗衣机，小到肥皂洗衣粉，都是她参加这些活动搬回家的。陆敏的爸爸大义（傅彪 饰）下岗后频频参加各种再就业培训，但毎逢面试准砸锅，好不容易找到一份陪酒员工作，也因不胜酒力被送进医院。就这样，一家三口奔波在各自的考场上，面对生活的种种困忧，他们象大多数家庭一样，别无选择......

The Kinema Junpo critics were, of course, mistaken to think that Naruse had abandoned his emphasis on women. His next film, Sincerity, features two strong female characters, played by Irie Takako and Murase Sachiko, each of whom have a daughter. The girls are schoolmates, but one (Nobuko) is from a middle-class home and the other (Tomiko) is from a poor family. Tomiko's mother Tsutako (Irie) is a single mother who works from home as a seamstress, while Nobuko's mother lives in an elegant home with her husband, Kei. Eventually, it is revealed that Kei had a romantic relationship with Tsutako, and may be Tomiko's father as well, but he is conscripted shortly after this revelation and goes off to war.This is very much a home front film, in which the women are involved in supporting activities, and the whole town cheers on the new recruits. As Kei is a banker, he is conscripted as an officer. He is introduced brandishing a magnificent sword, indicating his readiness for his call-up, for which everyone congratulates him when it comes. The wartime context is little more than a backdrop to the story of paternity and former love. The complex emotions among the women are conveyed through cutting on eye movements and eye lines, and through the use of the pastoral location.

靖國神社太鼓之音穿越花街，在妓院的和室間迴盪。戰後孤兒小圓修練聲色藝，殷勤接待各式各樣的恩客：儒雅建築師、耿直壽司師傅，少不了也有猥瑣老頭；安身立命，當上建築師妾侍亦甘之如飴。男人在身邊離離去去，她的身與心彷彿也逐漸得到解放，發現不曾認識的自己。首個鏡頭已先聲奪人，川島雄三以切割構圖、顛覆鏡頭及黑色幽默，為日本戰後的頹敗社會顯影，亦為女性雕琢出自主輪廓。若尾文子綻放艷麗無垢的光芒，三十五襲華衣美服目不暇給，細膩演繹「那個她」到「這個我」的微妙蛻變；最後獨自佇望登山索道，竟散發點點安東尼奧尼鏡頭下蒙妮卡維蒂的味道。電影旬報最佳女演員東京記者協會藍絲帶獎最佳女演員