人迹罕至的森林中，四个乘舟沿河漂流的年轻人被一名畸形的食人猎手袭击，食人狂用弓箭和陷阱将他们猎杀殆尽，只有一名名叫爱丽丝（Janet Montgomery 饰）的姑娘侥幸逃脱。几乎与此同时，西弗吉尼亚州的葛夫顿监狱中，狱警尼特（Tom Frederic 饰）和搭档接到了一项任务：将墨西哥裔犯人查韦斯（Tamer Hassan 饰）等人转移到另一所监狱。为了防止查韦斯的同伙于路劫车，监狱安排卧底乔装成犯人与查韦斯同行，然而意外还是发生了，囚车在荒凉的山路上被食人狂驾驶的车子撞下悬崖……囚犯们夺走枪支反客为主，尼特因为熟悉地形而担任向导，大难不死的爱丽丝出现在这支混合囚犯与狱警的队伍前面，她带来了食人狂的信息，夜色深锁的密林中，疯狂而又漫长的一夜刚刚才开始……

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.

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.

谭颂尧（苗侨伟 饰）和谭颂舜（陈奕迅 饰）是黑社会老大谭信天（王志文 饰）的儿子，两兄弟年幼时被父亲安排分隔两地。尧长大后接手父亲的社团，并且锐意改革，一心想走上正途，可是帮会内九叔和儿子闫国区（汤镇业 饰）却不想放弃暴利的不法勾当，并对社团老大的位置虎视眈眈；另一边，警探奎（刘德华 饰）密切关注着谭家社团的一举一动，收集犯罪证据。谭信天被害去世，谭颂舜回到香港，他开车意外撞死九叔，在舜的女友庄晴（黄奕 饰）陪同下逃到泰国，却屡屡身陷险境，幸得亲信阿鬼（黄日华 饰）的搭救才得以生还。接连发生的事情，让谭颂舜心生疑惑，两兄弟之间的信任备受考验，而幼时“宣武门之变”的卦象似乎正在慢慢应验......