Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

故事发生在昭和49年的东京。在东京都的丰岛区千里，居住着94岁高龄的画家熊谷守一（山崎努 饰）。熊谷守一和妻子秀子（树木希林 饰）拥有一个温馨的家，一条门廊，一片小院。每一天，熊谷守一都能够从自家院子的自然里感受到生命与季节和时间的变迁，这个院子里的一切就是他的生命。他和妻子都做已经参透了生活的奥义——生命的意义并非是钱可以买来的。可是，这样的院子旁边即将盖起一栋高耸入云的公寓大楼，大楼的影子将投射到他家的院子里，这也就意味着在那里的生命都将失去阳光……

2017 film by Nicolas Bedos

《许三观卖血记》是余华1995年创作的一部长篇小说，它以博大的温情描绘了磨难中的人生，以激烈的故事形式表达了人在面对厄运时求生的欲望。小说讲述了许三观靠着卖血渡过了人生的一个个难关，战胜了命运强加给他的惊涛骇浪，而当他老了，知道自己的血再也没有人要时，精神却崩溃了。

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 Taiwan animated film

2018 Japanese film

《斯通纳》讲述了生命中最重要的部分：爱，认同，怜悯，志业，傲骨，信任与死亡。
一个勇者有过的失败不失意的人生：即使不能拥有完美的生活，所幸追求过完整的自我。
美国，密苏里州。来自偏远农场的农家子弟、19岁的威廉·斯通纳进入州立密苏里大学学习农学。自一堂选修文学课为起点， 他的一生就此悄然改变。未来的斯通纳成为了一名大学老师，结婚、生子、教学、退休、衰老、死亡。在他生命的尽头，或许他可以坦然面对这个问题：你的一生，还要期望别的什么吗？
一部蕴含着真诚、激情与紧凑力量的小说，探究了历史洪流所忽视的人性之间的冲突、溃败与幸存，重新唤起思考每个个体独特存在的意义。作者约翰·威廉斯向世人展示了凡人中的勇者在如何生活。
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◆威廉斯的写作就像被打磨光滑的橡木上反射出本色、持久的光泽。这本书的伟大之处在于，它以不带一丝一毫悲喜的冷静洞察了生活本质的全部。《斯通纳》迟到五十年后畅销，是献给被亏欠的艺术一次迟来的正名。 ——《纽约客》
◆斯通纳活过，然后死去，如你我一样。他生活中发生的每一件事就发生在你我面前，看似平淡。然而，写出这种“简单”却需要天才才能完成。读这本书是一本令人难过却又美妙的阅读体验。 ——《星期日泰晤士报》
◆约翰·威廉斯的《斯通纳》刻画了一个将追求智识当作对抗无意义的战争、拒绝与外部世界作廉价妥协的人的一生。它的意义或许不只是一部伟大的小说——它简直是一部几近完美的小说，机构精巧，语言优美，故事动人，展示着一种夺人心魄的完美。 ——《纽约时报》
◆一件文学的珍宝。 ——《明镜周刊》
◆拥有超乎寻常的力量……直击生活的真相，语言清澈优美。它是一部献给所有热爱文学之人的传奇。 ——伊恩·麦克尤恩
◆一本精彩绝伦的小说，既丰富又忧郁，记录着伤痛与失去的同时也留存了美好温柔的时刻。这本小说完美展现了小说艺术的要素，它的叙事节奏与情节构架均堪称完美无缺。这本小说像一条河流，冷静而又流畅的平静笔调裹挟着磅礴延绵的力量。 ——亚当·福尔兹

2017 Japanese film directed by Yuya Ishii

A boss of a toy corporation, Chenggong Li, tries to head back to Chan Sar to celebrate the Chinese New Year with his family. However, plans don't go as smoothly after he crosses paths with a stranger, Geng Niu.

2017 Japanese two-part film by Yoshiyuki Kishi

我们都曾对人生的意义感到困惑。这个问题是否有答案？答案是否取决于我们？或者它不过是一个伪问题？在这部充满睿智和生气又能激发思考的作品中，特里•伊格尔顿展现了许多世纪以来的思想者，从莎士比亚、叔本华到马克思、萨特、贝克特，对人生意义问题的探索。作者知道，“本书的许多读者很可能会像怀疑圣诞老人的存在一样怀疑人生意义”，但同时又认为，在需要寻求共同意义的当今之世，我们有必要回答这个所有问题背后的问题。

匆忙浮躁的都市中，四个与音乐相关的男男女女看似偶然般地邂逅了，他们分别是第一小提琴手卷真纪（松隆子 饰）、大提琴手世吹雀（满岛光 饰）、中提琴手家森谕高（高桥一生 饰）以及第二提琴手别府司（松田龙平 饰）。仿佛是对音乐的共同志向，他们组建了名为“甜甜圈洞”的四重奏乐队，暂时落脚于别府家位于轻井泽的别墅，过起了与世隔绝的人生。然而四个人终究无法超脱世俗存在，除了最基本的吃饭问题，每个人似乎都被各自的秘密所牵扯纠缠。其中雀与真纪“邂逅”的原因，恰恰正是因为真纪丈夫的不辞而别。
雪花飘落，寒风萧瑟，四重奏的悠扬旋律荡涤且治愈着他们每一个人的心……

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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

With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.