A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

2018 film by Li Fangfang

《译文名著精选:刀锋》作者威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆（1874—1965），英国著名小说家、戏剧家。《译文名著精选:刀锋》是他的主要作品之一。《译文名著精选:刀锋》讲述了一个参加第一次世界大战的美国青年飞行员拉里·达雷尔的故事。在军队中，拉里结识了一名爱尔兰好友：这人平时是那样一个生龙活虎般的置生死于度外的飞行员，但在一次遭遇战中因趋救拉里而中弹牺牲。拉里因此对人生感到迷惘，弄不懂世界上为什么有恶和不幸，拉里开始了他令人匪夷所思的转变……

人生据说是一部大书。“生、老、病、死”是人生的规律，谁也逃不过。《写在人生边上》是钱钟书先生的第一个集子，由杨绛女士编定。本书则是这个集子的注释，回答了神和鬼的问题，有关人的问题，灵与肉的斗争和统一，修身之道，人生的价值等。 此书共分为两部分，在书中杨绛关注了神和鬼的问题，人的灵魂、个性、本性，灵与肉的斗争和统一，命与天命以及人类的文明等问题。融会了文学、哲学、伦理学精神分析等学科的知识，并形成了自己的思考。 后一部分则由注释《写在人生边上》多篇散文构成。在《论语趣》一文中，杨绛提到，钱钟书和她都认为，孔子最喜欢的弟子是子路而不是颜回，最不喜欢的是不懂装懂、大胆胡说的宰予。

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

2005 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

一部极其感人的纪录电影《积存时间的生活》，日本导演伏原健之拍摄，由日本影后树木希林担任旁白，日本现代陶渊明津端夫妇生活纪录片。藉由津端修一夫妇丰富的生活阅历，一幢深居林间的小屋，探索那些深藏于时间长河中的真正瑰宝。 一部极其感人的纪录电影，由新闻工作出身的日本导演伏原健之拍摄，他在三顾茅庐后，终以四封信获得隐居山林建筑师津端修一与英子夫妇点头「我们愿意协助」，开始著手拍摄这部电影。 一幢深居林间的小屋，位于日本高藏寺新城的一隅。那是建筑师津端修一、按著其师安东尼雷蒙德自豪的木造住宅所建成的。一年四季景緻万千，庭园栽植的上百种蔬果，经由其妻英子的巧手都成了道道佳餚。不论烹饪、裁缝、耕作，没有一样能难得倒她。他们的家居处处充满体贴与用心，印证建筑大师科比意的名言「房子该是生活的藏宝盒」。 津端修一曾任日本住宅公团首席建筑师，60年代便提出保留树林为风开道的理念，希望新的建案都能开始与自然共生，却不为当时以发展经济优先的政策所採纳，徒成一片片了无生气的集合住宅。他于是改从自身做起，不仅放下繁忙工作，并在住宅区购入土地、盖起房屋也种植了林木。在历经半世纪的时光后，两夫妇的勤奋与优雅，果然为这片淨土栽下了无数珍宝...

编辑推荐 《以自己喜欢的方式过一生》中记录的，是这样一些人，和他们各自不同的命运： 在母亲失望的眼神里坚持玩收藏，终于玩成办个人展览的收藏家； 一位敢年近30才走进美术课堂的电工，现在是国内某知名设计师； 一位亿万富翁回忆，妈妈从名媛跌落到洗衣妇，依然坚持每晚给他把衣服 熨平。让他穿得破旧却干净，那时他不懂，他只是朦朦胧胧感觉到，即便做洗衣妇，他的母亲也和别人不同…… 他们的坚持是生命里自顾自的模样；人来人往中，只有这样的心灵才能做到旁若无人。他们专注的样子，很自由。 作者没有写远大的理想，锦绣的前程。她把生活里的拧巴、纠结一一融化在淡淡的笔尖。写那些最朴素的人、最朴素的生活。偏偏让你嗅到理想应该有的味道。 合上书，你也许会忽然发现，原来一直误解了理想的意义。生活不应是为了周遭的人对自己满意而已。 就算怀揣世上最伟大的梦想，也不妨碍我们得到一个普通人的快乐。这世上只有一种成功，就是以自己喜欢的方式过一生。

目送共由七十四篇散文组成，是为一本极具亲情、感人至深的文集。由父亲的逝世、母亲的苍老、儿子的离开、朋友的牵挂、兄弟的携手共行，写出失败和脆弱、失落和放手，写出缠绵不舍和绝然的虚无。正如作者所说：“我慢慢地、慢慢地了解到，所谓父女母子一场，只不过意味着，你和他的缘分就是今生今世不断地在目送他的背影渐行渐远。你站在小路的这一端，看着他逐渐消失在小路转弯的地方，而且，他用背影默默地告诉你，不用追。”

《东京女子图鉴》改编自在《东京日历》上连载的同名四格漫画，电视剧版的导演由《百万元与苦虫女》的棚田由纪担当。水川麻美将演绎女主角绫从20多岁到40多岁的成长过程，绫从家乡来到东京工作生活，随着年龄的增长、生活环境的变化，她的人生也随时面临全新的挑战。本剧在惠比寿、银座等多个地标性的外景地取景，全方位展示一个真实的东京。

“北野武因为摩托车事故而受重伤！” 挣扎彷徨在死亡边缘的北野武感悟到的极致思索、从事故发生到疗养期间的点滴心迹，都被赤裸地剖白，重新检视生存的意蕴。 “人究竟为什么而活？” 不断而严酷地自我“哲学”拷问，是否使北野武探寻到了自己的生死观？

安德烈十四岁的时候，龙应台离开欧洲，返回台湾，就任台北市首任文化局长。等她卸任回到儿子身边，安德烈已是一个一百八十四公分高的十八岁的小伙子，坐在桌子另一边，有一点“冷”地看着妈妈。 他们是两代人，年龄相差三十年；他们也是两国人，中间横着东西文化。失去小男孩安安没关系，但龙应台一定要认识成熟的大学生安德烈。 于是，母子俩用了三年时间互相通信。龙应台“认识了人生里第一个十八岁的人”，安德烈“也第一次认识了自己的母亲”。 收入此书的的三十多封书信，感动了无数被“亲子”之间隔阂与冲突深深困扰着的读者，为读者弭平代沟、跨越文化阻隔、两代人沟通交流带来了全新的思维和方法。

The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the post office before she died.

2013 film by Yuya Ishii

2014 film by Han Han

Shuhao is a 24 year old Taiwanese university graduate. His older brother Shuwei, whom he has idolized since childhood, dies on a bicycle ride to Lhasa. He decides to complete Shuwei's journey, hoping to prove himself through this challenging trip. Shuhao's inexperience almost sees him headed over a cliff one dark night. Food poisoning nearly costs him his life just after surviving an attack by a pack of menacing Tibetan Mastiffs. In the end, Shuhao arrives in Lhasa to see the Potola Palace. His lonely journey, filled with laughter and tears, brings him to the discovery of a new purpose in life.

2008 film by Jérémy Clapin

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

When a cross-section of seven-year-olds were interviewed for 7 Up in 1964 it was immediately evident that their social backgrounds influenced their attitudes towards life. While the upper class children were confident and self-assured, those from middle and working class backgrounds were resigned to a challenging life of hard work. This premise was put to the test every seven years when the same group were interviewed about the progression of their lives. 49 years in the making, the changes that occurred to the original 14 make for fascinating television and are in many ways the stories of all our lives. From success and disappointment, marriage and childbirth, to poverty and illness, nearly every facet of life has been captured on film. Now, at the age of 56, the group are once more brought together and, with the benefit of hindsight, assess whether their lives have been ruled by circumstance or self-determination.