《卡特教练》又名《铁血教练 》、《放牛班的严冬》，根据高中篮球队教练肯·卡特的真实故事改编而成。里士满高中篮球队原本从未在任何比赛中获胜过，是一支屡败屡战的队伍，这一切在卡特教练（塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）执教之后发生了变化。他相信这支队伍在他的带领下可以成为最优秀的篮球队，所以他要求队员和他签订一个协议，约定如果队伍不团结或是成绩不佳就不再继续参加任何比赛。在他的带领下，这支队伍开始走上了上坡路，最后成为无人能敌的长胜王。但是在1999年举行的国家锦标赛上，队员们的表现却十分不尽人意，这让卡特教练沮丧不已，他真的关闭了训练馆，禁止队伍继续参加任何比赛。此举引起了极大的反响，他一时成了大众议论的焦点，有人赞赏他视篮球为生命的品格，但更多的人对他的举动表示不解，甚至是批评。

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.

活了六十多個年頭，秀英阿嬤（陳淑芳 飾）一直深信著「專心一意做好一件事」的人生哲學。自丈夫突然無聲無息地離家後，她便一個人盡心盡力的工作、持家，將兒女們拉拔長大。相信著只要好好守護這個家，總有一天，拋家棄子的丈夫終將歸來。沒想到在孫女小橙（王真琳 飾）來訪期間，秀英卻接到了告知丈夫已逝的通知，還迎來了另一個陪著丈夫度過了晚年的女人（方文琳 飾）。對照丈夫晚年戀人端莊優雅的舉止氣質，秀英低頭看著自己因長年做生意養家而留下水泡痕和粗繭的雙手，一瞬之間，自己一輩子深信不疑的努力精神似乎成了玩笑。不諒解、不甘心等諸多情緒讓緊繃的氣氛一觸即發。究竟，接連幾天舉行的喪禮，秀英要怎麼與那個女人共處？而她又該如何檢視自己的一生，才能彌平心中的遺憾，與離開自己的丈夫、也與放不下的自己道別……