When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.

A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the opulent music room of his younger, richer neighbour.

15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an accident on a Latvian highway. The bus driver who was involved in the tragic accident will bring his body back to Leningrad. A party of mourners – Tsoi’s wife and her new boyfriend, his mistress, his producer, his young son and an obsessed photographer – are part of the trip back. This is going to be a long trip, the perfect occasion for an agonizing unravelling of love, jealousy, ambition, and greed.

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Decision: Ma Ji (Liu Dehua) and Zhu Nu (Liu Yijun) are good brothers who have sympathy for brotherhood. They have experienced all kinds of storms and waves together, and their feelings are very firm. However, in an accident, the two unintentionally set off a fire which caused heavy casualties. Ma Ji decided to make a good man from now on, but Zhu Nv still went her own way and gradually drifted away. "Pocket money": A Bang (Stephen Chow) is a son-in-law born with a golden spoon, but in an accident, he became addicted to drugs, and from then on he went deeper and deeper into extinction. Wrong Way: Arvin (Tony Leung) is a kind and filial boy who always takes care of his sick mother. One day, on the basketball court, Ah Wen was repeatedly harassed and provoked by gangsters. Untolerable, he clashed with the other side, resulting in a homicide. Ah Wen was immediately pursued by the police.

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.