该片描述是大圈帮的故事,不过那是早期偷渡来港的一批满以为香港遍地黄金的大陆青年。当时的香港人轻视大陆人的心理,造成二者格格不入,加上本身慕求财富虚荣的思想,终于铤而走险,希望械劫得一笔巨额款项,然后飘洋远方。他们纠结了一群本地飞车党,详细策划了这宗天衣无缝的劫案。 根據1974年5月25日香港旺角上海街寶生銀行發生的七佰萬元大劫案真實改編。本片根據案中一名犯罪成員親身口述,以寫實的手法拍攝這宗香港開埠以來空前震撼的劫案,該片無論案發前后,人物,地點和計劃都展露眼前。当年擔任此案總指揮的重案組警司 - 陳欣健。亦已轉向娛乐界發展。
Yi-jung is in her late twenties and still lives with her mother. Having raised her daughter alone, Su-kyung is now ready to start a new life with her fiancé and leave the past behind. Not so Yi-jung, who from an early age has all too often had to serve as an outlet for her irascible mother’s frustrations. The many years of disregard have left her with a crippling mixture of suppressed feelings towards her mother from whom she simply cannot break free. When an argument between the two escalates in a supermarket car park, Su-kyung hits her daughter with her car. Just an accident, the mother claims. Malicious intent, Yi-jung retorts. This rebellion marks the beginning of an arduous process for both women to cut the cord.
影片主人公是一名退休的音乐教授,名叫米沙·布兰科夫,在不同寻常的情况下揭开了自己的身世秘密。在贝尔格莱德曾经矗立着纳粹集中营的一片废墟上,人们发现了一个装满文件的铁盒子。这是在1941年,一位名叫伊萨克·威斯的集中营犯人把它埋在地下的。教授得知威斯才是自己的真正父亲。他在离开之前,把孩子交给了布兰科夫一家抚养。盒子中还装着一本未完成的曲谱,曲名叫做《当天色破晓》,是伊萨克·威斯在集中营中创作的作品。教授决心完成父亲未尽的作品,并且在废墟上进行一次告慰亡灵的演奏。
影片讲述了宋朝年间,侠盗关炼被判死刑,总捕头陆钦,有感于关炼的孝道和救母之恩,私放其回乡探母,约定七日后关炼返回监牢伏法收刑的故事。在这七日之中,关炼和陆钦都面临着重重杀机和内心挣扎的双重考验。本片传递出信义长存、法理常在的信念,用武侠故事传递出中华传统美德。
牧村朔太郎(草剪刚 饰)是一个痴迷科幻题材的小说家,他早年从工厂辞职,专心于科幻小说的写作。虽然科幻小说的风头渐渐被言情小说抢尽,他却甘于寂寞,始终为了理想笔耕不辍。朔太郎的妻子节子(竹内结子 饰)深爱着这个有些天然呆的丈夫,她白日里在银行努力工作,夜晚和假日则尽心操持着他们平凡的小家,照顾朔太郎的衣食起居。某天,节子突然病倒,经诊断却得知罹患了晚期肠癌,只有不到一年的寿命。得知这一消息,朔太郎决心每天为妻子写一个小故事,让节子保持快乐的心情。故事一篇篇写出,在喜乐悲欢之中,他们结伴走过了4年多的人生时光…… 本片根据作家眉村卓和他妻子悦子的真实故事改编。
The direction of The Sleeping Tiger was credited to Victor Hanbury, but this was actually a pseudonym for the blacklisted Joseph Losey, whose first British film this was. Alexander Knox stars as psychiatrist Clive Esmond, who believes that he can stem the criminal tendencies of young fugitive from justice Frank Clements (Dirk Bogarde). To this end, Esmond hides Clements in his own home. At first hostile towards the handsome crook, Esmond's wife Glenda (Alexis Smith) gradually warms up to her house guest, and before long she and Clements are casting lustful glances at one another. She intends to run off with Clements and make a new life for herself, when suddenly he decides that he actually wants to reform. If nothing else, The Sleeping Tiger is a fascinating precursor to the sexual tensions prevalent in Losey's later Harold Pinter adaptations. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi