一九九五年一月十七日清晨，在水原雅也为父亲守夜的第二天早上，发生了大地震。他为了摆脱叔父的追债，在断垣残壁中趁乱砸死了叔父，等回过头来发现自己行凶的过程却被旁边站着的一名女子当场目击。女子自称新海美冬，双亲亦于这场震灾中罹难，举目无亲的她愿意为雅也守住杀人的秘密，雅也为她的美貌折服，于是跟这个自称是新海美冬的人走在了一起。两人约定抛却家乡的一切前往东京展开新生活。然而前方等着雅也的，却是一个个形同幻影的夜晚。为了满足美冬对"美"的追求，他们制造了各种阴谋与事件，美冬凭借其美貌、肉体与手腕魅惑男性，一步步构筑她的上流梦想帝国；而途中所有的阻碍，都交由雅也暗中协助处理。雅也深爱美冬，但他的生活却从此见不得阳光。美冬的白天正是雅也的黑夜，连系两人世界的，唯有一桩又一桩依照美冬指示的冷酷罪行。终于刑警加藤亘嗅出这数起案件的连结——凡是碰触美冬的过去的人，都逐一从世上消失，开始注意起他们；而另一方面，雅也愈爱美冬，就愈想知道她的过去。加藤与雅也两人都决心查出这名女子的真实身分，在隐藏身份躲避调查的过程中，新海美冬的秘密也渐渐浮出水面。

一九九五年一月十七日清晨，在水原雅也为父亲守夜的第二天早上，发生了大地震。他为了摆脱叔父的追债，在断垣残壁中趁乱砸死了叔父，等回过头来发现自己行凶的过程却被旁边站着的一名女子当场目击。女子自称新海美冬，双亲亦于这场震灾中罹难，举目无亲的她愿意为雅也守住杀人的秘密，雅也为她的美貌折服，于是跟这个自称是新海美冬的人走在了一起。两人约定抛却家乡的一切前往东京展开新生活。然而前方等着雅也的，却是一个个形同幻影的夜晚。为了满足美冬对"美"的追求，他们制造了各种阴谋与事件，美冬凭借其美貌、肉体与手腕魅惑男性，一步步构筑她的上流梦想帝国；而途中所有的阻碍，都交由雅也暗中协助处理。雅也深爱美冬，但他的生活却从此见不得阳光。美冬的白天正是雅也的黑夜，连系两人世界的，唯有一桩又一桩依照美冬指示的冷酷罪行。终于刑警加藤亘嗅出这数起案件的连结——凡是碰触美冬的过去的人，都逐一从世上消失，开始注意起他们；而另一方面，雅也愈爱美冬，就愈想知道她的过去。加藤与雅也两人都决心查出这名女子的真实身分，在隐藏身份躲避调查的过程中，新海美冬的秘密也渐渐浮出水面。

cosplay是英文costume play的简略写法，其动词为cos，而玩cosplay的人则一般被称为coser[也称cosplayer]。从一般意义上来说的cosplay最早的中文译名是出自台湾，意思是指角色扮演。但因为这种译法与游戏中的role play game(rpg)同为角色扮演之意，所以为免雷同，笔者更倾向于另一种译法--服饰装扮。以现今的cosplay而言，其形式及内容一般是指利用服装、小饰品、道具以及化装来扮演acg(anime、comic、game)中的角色或是一些日本视觉系乐队以及电影中的某些人物，从这里可以看出在定位上cosplay包含了相当广阔的发挥空间，甚至可以说只要是有cosplayer在的地方，这一领域便绝对就是当今青少年流行文化的主流。

cosplay是英文costume play的简略写法，其动词为cos，而玩cosplay的人则一般被称为coser[也称cosplayer]。从一般意义上来说的cosplay最早的中文译名是出自台湾，意思是指角色扮演。但因为这种译法与游戏中的role play game(rpg)同为角色扮演之意，所以为免雷同，笔者更倾向于另一种译法--服饰装扮。以现今的cosplay而言，其形式及内容一般是指利用服装、小饰品、道具以及化装来扮演acg(anime、comic、game)中的角色或是一些日本视觉系乐队以及电影中的某些人物，从这里可以看出在定位上cosplay包含了相当广阔的发挥空间，甚至可以说只要是有cosplayer在的地方，这一领域便绝对就是当今青少年流行文化的主流。

Each week four contestants will compete to create full costumes and character origin stories that will dazzle a panel of judges for a chance to win $10,000.

在泰国海边渡假胜地芭达雅，韩国兄弟泰京和在熙住在一所高级别墅裡，哥哥泰京因身怀重症到泰国养病，弟弟在熙则陪同照顾他，年轻男子旻杰的突然造访，却打乱他们的平静生活。原来在熙服役时认识了旻杰的哥哥旻勳并与他交往，在熙退伍后，旻勳在军中受到霸凌而选择自杀，旻杰对此耿耿于怀，于是前往泰国寻找在熙。 　　起初旻杰深信在熙必须对哥哥的死负责，但在朝夕相处后，他才发现在熙深爱著哥哥，更与在熙互生好感，爱意在热带幻夜中逐渐萌芽。知道自己来日不多的泰京，看出旻杰和在熙两情相悦却充满顾忌，进而想帮弟弟留住旻杰，内心却感到无法言喻的酸楚。互相抚慰的三人建立起一段微妙关係，他们必须透过瞭解、原谅与成全，才能走出自己的伤痛。

讲述了唐门掌门唐阿朵在龙门客栈内身陷时间轮回的离奇事件，在时间轮回中，她经历了反复被杀又复活的惊魂一夜，并最终抓住真凶、剿灭邪教的故事。

在泰国海边渡假胜地芭达雅，韩国兄弟泰京和在熙住在一所高级别墅裡，哥哥泰京因身怀重症到泰国养病，弟弟在熙则陪同照顾他，年轻男子旻杰的突然造访，却打乱他们的平静生活。原来在熙服役时认识了旻杰的哥哥旻勳并与他交往，在熙退伍后，旻勳在军中受到霸凌而选择自杀，旻杰对此耿耿于怀，于是前往泰国寻找在熙。 　　起初旻杰深信在熙必须对哥哥的死负责，但在朝夕相处后，他才发现在熙深爱著哥哥，更与在熙互生好感，爱意在热带幻夜中逐渐萌芽。知道自己来日不多的泰京，看出旻杰和在熙两情相悦却充满顾忌，进而想帮弟弟留住旻杰，内心却感到无法言喻的酸楚。互相抚慰的三人建立起一段微妙关係，他们必须透过瞭解、原谅与成全，才能走出自己的伤痛。

"The Theme" is a film that had to stay on the shelf for almost ten years because of its "theme". Mikhail Ulyanov plays Kim Yesenin, a disillusioned and cynical playwright who uses the system by writing the conformist plays and enjoys the benefits of being the officially recognized and appointed "great Soviet writer" but who in reality has been used by a system and spent all the talent he ever had in writing the plays that had no artistic value whatsoever. Bitter irony lies in the name of the character: Sergei Yesenin was a real life enormously talented, widely popular and beloved Russian poet who committed suicide at the age of 30 in 1925 because he could not fit in the Soviet Russia. Kim Yesenin in the movie suffers the writing block and arrives to the small provincial town with a friend and a young mistress in search of inspiration. He meets an attractive, intelligent and well educated museum guide named Sasha (Inna Churikova never looked so beautiful and sophisticated and I finally understood why Panfilov always had been fascinated by her face, never conventionally pretty) who used to be a big fan of his earlier works but has a lot of unflattering things to say about his officially praised outings. Sasha is in love with a talented historian who had made a very difficult and life changing decision to emigrate from the Soviet Union. He had lost his job by becoming a dissident and had to work as a gravedigger to support himself while waiting for permission to leave the country. Those who never had to emigrate from their country knowing that they might leave forever and never be allowed to go back to see their loved ones and the places dear to their heart again would not fully understand why Panfilov's film had to stay on the shelf for almost ten year after it was completed. It was released only during the "perestroika" in 1987 and I saw it then. I respect Panfilov for his siding with the real artists rejected by the system but his film is not only a courageous statement against the conformity suffocating cultural life under the Brezhnev regime which would be later called "period zastoya" or "stagnation", it is a memorable work of cinema with very good performances from his muse, Inna Churikova, Mikhail Ulyanov, and supporting cast.

"The Theme" is a film that had to stay on the shelf for almost ten years because of its "theme". Mikhail Ulyanov plays Kim Yesenin, a disillusioned and cynical playwright who uses the system by writing the conformist plays and enjoys the benefits of being the officially recognized and appointed "great Soviet writer" but who in reality has been used by a system and spent all the talent he ever had in writing the plays that had no artistic value whatsoever. Bitter irony lies in the name of the character: Sergei Yesenin was a real life enormously talented, widely popular and beloved Russian poet who committed suicide at the age of 30 in 1925 because he could not fit in the Soviet Russia. Kim Yesenin in the movie suffers the writing block and arrives to the small provincial town with a friend and a young mistress in search of inspiration. He meets an attractive, intelligent and well educated museum guide named Sasha (Inna Churikova never looked so beautiful and sophisticated and I finally understood why Panfilov always had been fascinated by her face, never conventionally pretty) who used to be a big fan of his earlier works but has a lot of unflattering things to say about his officially praised outings. Sasha is in love with a talented historian who had made a very difficult and life changing decision to emigrate from the Soviet Union. He had lost his job by becoming a dissident and had to work as a gravedigger to support himself while waiting for permission to leave the country. Those who never had to emigrate from their country knowing that they might leave forever and never be allowed to go back to see their loved ones and the places dear to their heart again would not fully understand why Panfilov's film had to stay on the shelf for almost ten year after it was completed. It was released only during the "perestroika" in 1987 and I saw it then. I respect Panfilov for his siding with the real artists rejected by the system but his film is not only a courageous statement against the conformity suffocating cultural life under the Brezhnev regime which would be later called "period zastoya" or "stagnation", it is a memorable work of cinema with very good performances from his muse, Inna Churikova, Mikhail Ulyanov, and supporting cast.