五爪十八翻

　　影片由一个少年学艺、为父报仇的故事展开，发展为一个抗击恶势力、维护家人利益的励志故事，主角叶少侠在尚武镇历尽艰辛吃尽苦头，最终成为一代大师。剧中人物以喜剧表演风格将影片维持在一个轻松氛围中，所塑造的叶少侠行为上除了体现中国儒家传统的忠孝仁义等优秀品质外，还带有西方泊来的平等博爱等观念的影响。而叶少侠初期自身缺点——争强好胜的少年心性，也让他在励志学武过程中更加的赋予人物色彩。过程中武艺精进，实则是少年心性的塑造，开始的一心复仇，到了影片的后半部分更多的是迫不得已才出手，保卫“家人”而出手，复仇的情节早已在人物成长中有所释怀。影片对反派的恶丝毫不留情面，反派所代表的外邦势力，更能让人感受到故事发生时期人民所受的屈辱。这将是给主角展示能力的合理依据，不仅是反省，更是自强则国强的隐喻。

　　Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie.
　　They don’t make ’em like Little Dixie anymore: honed to the bone, all gestures and actions, only a few words. Too many genre films these days try to create meaning by piling ideas and intentions on their narrative frames. John Swab, as always, works the other way around. Meaning and depth come from taking away whatever is superfluous – by reducing the plot to its bare essence and the characters to their core trades and tricks.
　　Ultimately, Little Dixie feels like the pulp fiction version of a Giacometti sculpture, all fearful symmetries and mirror images. A gem of crime cinema at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir’s new darling, Frank Grillo.

　　A young couple gets kidnapped and treated like farm animals after stopping at a roadside diner to eat meat.

　　在东京下野有一间叫铃木的汽车修理店，店主叫铃木则文（堤真一 饰），他与妻子友枝（药师丸博子 饰）、儿子一平生活幸福和睦。一天，他们迎来了从乡下到大城市工作的星野六子（堀北真希 饰）到店里打工，满心以为回到大公司工作的六子来到店里之后非常失望，但她还是很虚心的留下打工。期 间他则文对六子有过误会，但冰释前嫌之后4人成为了一家人。六子在圣诞节收到了铃木一家送的车票，她可以在新年期间回家，但她却哭着把票退给了铃木先生……
　　铃木家对面住着一位怀才不遇的文人茶川（吉冈秀隆 饰），为三流杂志写儿童读物，附近酒馆老板娘广美（小雪 饰）拜托他收养孤儿淳之介，当知道淳之介是自己的忠实读者之后，茶川对之态度改变许多。广美也对他的慷慨产生了好感，怎料在结婚前广美突然出走了。淳之介十分想找回自己的母亲，此时有一个自称是他父亲的富翁想要接走淳之介，茶川虽然不舍却没有办法，绝望之际发现前方熟悉的身影……

　　朝鲜中宗22年，王为了躲避宫中出现的怪物而迁宫。改编自这段史实，讲述了威胁王的「物怪」（诡异的物件）与觊觎王位的循旧势力展开的争斗。