女友的朋友

独自生活在运河边农村的老太太周瑾（葛兆美 饰）突然被确诊脑瘤，漂在外地的子女不得不回乡照顾。大女儿苏念真（刘丹 饰）在上海经营留学咨询机构，正在经历第二次离婚，她坚持要给母亲最好的治疗；小儿子苏念清（吴洲凯 饰）是个四处漂泊的导游，他支持母亲放下，接受无常。在死亡面前，周瑾寻找着精神的归宿 ，苏念真和苏念清在不断发现母亲秘密的同时，正与故乡失去最后的连接。

故事讲述神刀大侠的神刀惹武林高手垂涎。大侠临终时把神刀传给徒弟凌震宵，惹师弟嫉妒，引起江湖腥风血雨……张彻爱将“武侠巨星”王羽首次参与其它导演之作品。故事描述神刀大侠的神刀，惹武林高手垂涎。大侠临终时，把神刀传给徒弟凌震霄，惹师弟方世雄妒忌。原来方是败类尚官武的羽党，混入大侠门下，志在劫刀，方遂劫走凌的未婚妻白凤，要胁以神刀换人。凌气愤万分，要去尚家拚命，但凌父劝阻，说尚父对凌家有恩，还私下收起神刀……

Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.

1982年6月的一天，长春光机所副研究员蒋筑英（巍子 饰）因公前往成都出差。他和善地和妻子路长琴（奚美娟 饰）以及女儿告别。本以为是一次例同以往的公干，谁知却再也没有回到温暖的家中。未过几天，长琴接到长春光机所的通知，得知丈夫因病住院，急需她去长春护理。焦急的女子此时还不知晓，丈夫已在15号的那天病故了。怀着惴惴的心情，长琴踏上旅途，而与丈夫相守的往事如电影一般在头脑中回放。当年英气勃发的蒋筑英，为了学习光学从杭州来到长春，为钻研业务自学了五门外语。这个在祖国科研事业上坚定前行的工作者，怀着崇高的理想向科学的殿堂进发，直到用尽最后的力气……