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一把玄铁刀，辗转三世，成就三段故事。在豪侠手中，它能成就英雄霸业；在大厨手中，它能烹饪世间美味；在有情人手中，它能成就爱情。当年，为了得到旷世玄铁，炼就绝世宝刀，孤独成杀兄弟，盗父墓，寻找 隐居多年的铁匠唐胖子，然而最终却被唐胖子欺骗，不得善终。唐胖子把玄铁炼成菜刀，传于少年八大铲，多年之后，八大铲成为俏江南的第一大厨，名扬江湖。哑巴（安腾政信 饰）为了得到宝刀，手刃仇人替父报仇，于是借计接近八大铲，在尽得真传之后对其痛下杀手。然而牺牲无辜之后，哑巴并没有亲手杀死仇人，但仇人却意外死在哑巴眼前，顷刻顿悟的哑巴从此隐居谷底。屠夫少三两恋上万花楼花魁寐娘（张雨绮 饰），然而纵使他使尽混身解数，不仅见不到寐娘，而且受尽一刀仙的羞辱。心灰意冷的他在滂沱雨夜跳入深谷，大难不死并且知遇哑巴盗得玄铁宝刀。当他再一次回到万花楼之后，杀死一刀仙并且与寐娘成亲，然而在成亲之日，他才发现对寐娘的相思只是一个美丽的错误……本片为“亚洲新星引力电影计划”首推力作，改编自安昌河的小说《菜刀传奇》，被誉为国内首部先锋武侠喜剧。

*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.

九○年代，東南亞少女懷抱憧憬，遠嫁到這座富足之島…第一段故事：關於來自越南的文慧，她與建築工丈夫、婆婆，同住在島上荒郊，三人對「家」各有期待；怎料屋內瀰漫不安，災禍更環伺家外、侵襲他們的生活，也迫使文慧幸福幻滅、飄泊於異鄉，苦盼著千禧年降臨。第二段故事：島上進入新時代，某位神祕越南女子現身都會，她是一名徵信探員，邊出任務抓姦，邊為實現理想，探究起文慧及這座島嶼的經歷，但她的追尋旅途中，竟接連遇見那些…似曾出現於往日的人事物境。本片藉由兩段敘事，對照台灣社會的今昔，看新移民女性在異鄉不同時代下，能否重拾自我、掙脫困境？能否與在地人一起，活出真正的自由？

2021年5月24日，一位来自中国的视障者张洪，登顶了世界第一高峰珠穆朗玛峰。他成为了亚洲第一位，世界第三位登上这座高峰的盲人攀登者。然而，并不能欣赏顶峰风光的张洪为什么痴迷于攀登；当他下定决心冲击世界屋脊直到完成目标，这一路，他都经历了什么？中国首位获得美国艾美奖最佳纪录片和最佳长篇商业报道奖两项大奖的导演及其团队，亲自操刀，历时三年，跨越两国，记录了张洪攀登珠峰的全过程。影片真实展现了珠穆朗玛峰壮丽的景色和暴虐无情的惊险、张洪登顶的历史时刻以及电影主人公面对自身身体条件的缺陷、庞大的经济和时间成本、情感取舍、气候地势等众多问题时的点滴时刻。面对“看不见的顶峰”，张洪始终用“路虽远，行将至”的精神鼓舞着自己，用他的话来说就是”路再难，走一步是一步。”