A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

2016 Hong Kong film

A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.

In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

2016 film directed by Tate Taylor

Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

遠藤周作，這位善於運用心靈考驗融入作品的小說家，是為日本文學界最不可遺忘的名家之一。 他的作品充斥著信仰的掙扎與情感的矛盾，在閱讀的過程中，常見他以時空旅者之姿，在作品裡不斷躍出，來回穿梭，與種種「過去之我」彼此質疑詰問，企圖為自我作告解，為生命尋找窗口，為情感與原罪作出解釋。如果自剖不只是為了自癒，那麼遠藤周作必定是位勇者，才能對自己如此的殘忍、坦白與犀利，透過對自己的「逼視」，告訴讀者生命的實相。 本書輯錄的小說，各有姿態，卻隱隱然指向生之意義的終極課題，是為遠藤周作創作生涯中最經典的中短篇小說集。