本书是作者的第一部短篇集，全书以音乐为线索，由五个看似独立却又相互关联的故事组成。故事的主要人物都同音乐情牵相关：郁郁不得志的餐厅乐手，风光不再的过气歌星，孤芳自赏的大提琴手，为求成功被迫整容的萨克斯手等等，多是对音乐一往情深，对生活却满腹牢骚。情节或荒诞不经，或令人唏嘘，借音乐人生这个主题，表现了作者一贯的对现代人生存状态的反思：理想与现实的差距，命运的嘲弄，才华的折磨，以及庞大社会机器控制下被压抑的情感…… 值得一提的是，书中大量出现的音乐家、歌手、歌名，绝大部分都是真实的，令人仿若置身于上世纪五十至八十年代的当红歌手和经典曲目之中；而音乐，恰是作者年轻时曾经涉足，并浸淫于其中，乃至立志从事的。

2021 film directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Waiting to be drafted, he is unable to commit himself to anything or anybody, including his girlfriend Gloria. While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop" (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). George spends his last twelve dollars to photograph her, and discovers that she is as unhappy as he. Although Lola is unwilling to respond to George, their brief night of lovemaking gives both the will to deal with their respective problems.

Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

The director of a theatre company is in crisis and his actors have lost confidence in him. One day he meets a woman wearing the same shoes as him, immediately sparking chemistry between the two.

渡边淳一妙趣横生的短篇小说集，收录有《女人的手》《结婚戒指》《后遗症》《春别》《再见，再见》《泪壶》六篇经典作品。 《女人的手》：三十五岁的设计师K先生不慎被机器切断了右手，然而移植给他的却是一只四十二岁女人的白嫩的手。他的生活随之出现了一系列奇妙的变化。 《泪壶》：丈夫新津雄介遵照妻子的遗愿，用她的骨灰制成了一把精美的瓷壶，相伴左右、日夜守候。然而被寂寞和思念笼罩的日子里，他开始想要寻求一段新的恋情来填补空虚的生活。殊不知，每一段美好的恋情都摆脱不了瓷壶的“关注”。

2011 film by Andrés Baiz

「当巨大的外在世界崩坏时，人们只能在自己的小世界中寻求生存之道。直子与贤治将自我封闭在两人专属的小世界里，伴随着男女之间自然而然的肉体关系，仿佛被抛入了无法说谎的宇宙之中，当中有着快感，也袒露出人们原本拥有的特质。似乎唯有潜入这个小小宇宙之中，人们才能发挥真正的坚强」─原著作家白石一文 十天后即将迎接婚礼的直子，与重回故乡秋田的往日恋人贤治，久别重逢。直子从为了迎接新生活而整理出来的物品当中，翻出了一本相簿，相簿里是她与贤治一丝不挂地交缠着的黑白照片；往昔顺从着欲望本能共度的青春时光就此苏醒。 「只要今晚就好，让我们回到过去好吗？」在直子未婚夫归来的五天内，在刻画于肉体的愉悦记忆及纠葛的尽头，两人将看到什么风景？结合了震灾背景，包覆在漠然日常之下的浓密性爱，仿佛即将喷发的火山，迸裂出扭曲却纯洁、毅然而绝美的生命岩浆。

2021 film directed by Nobuhiro Doi

Season two features a new ensemble cast and storylines set in 1949 that explores what it means to be beautiful, the hidden truth behind the facades people present to the world, the effects of being ignored and overlooked by society, and finally, the lengths one woman will go in order to finally belong…

贝斯（金妮弗·古德温 Ginnifer Goodwin 饰）从小的梦想就是能够成为一名家庭主妇，如今她嫁给了罗伯特（山姆·贾格 Sam Jaeger 饰）为妻，总算是实现了理想。没想到第三者的出现将她美好的生活幻影撕成了碎片。 社交名媛西蒙尼（刘玉玲 饰）嫁给了非常疼爱她的卡尔（杰克·达文波特 Jack Davenport 饰），哪知道竟然在偶然之中发现卡尔竟然是一名同性恋者，在守住秘密和守住尊严之间，西蒙尼必须做出选择。 泰勒（柯尔比·豪威尔-巴普蒂斯特 Kirby Howell-Baptiste 饰）和埃里（瑞德·斯科特 Reid Scott 饰）正在进行一场开放式婚姻，泰勒的情人杰德（亚历珊德拉·达达里奥 Alexandra Daddario 饰）的出现让埃里开始觉得，在他们两个人里面再加一个人似乎也是个不错的主意。

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.

文明时代、反智社会！幽默是无声的呐喊，苦笑是绝望的挣扎！新香港黑色曲线单元剧。由你我眼中，所闻所见的奇人奇事，构成一连串香港故事！揭露城市阴暗荒谬的另一侧，探射香港人心底里身在社会角落的贪、嗔、痴、恨、爱！每段难以置信却真实贴地的人生奇遇。追求黄金、却制造垃圾，在欲望泛滥的时代，迷失挣扎的你和我，最后得到的会是甚么？失去的又是甚么？

Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.