脸上涂着歌舞伎般的白色妆容， 　　穿着纯白礼服打扮得像贵族小姐般站在横滨街角， 　　她从不说自己的真实年龄, 　　也从不告诉别人自己的名字； 　　她在战后50年来做妓女维持生活， 　　以绝代美女而知名， 　　因高雅的品位而成为横滨一道独特的风景线。 　　她被横滨人称为“横滨的玛莉桑”。 　　1995年的冬天,玛莉小姐在横滨街头的身影突然消失了。 　　对不透露自己的玛莉小姐置之不理的人们， 　　越来越多地谈论起她， 　　她化身成了都市传说里的女主角。 　　但是那些曾经照顾和帮助过 　　玛莉小姐的少数人一直都存在着， 　　身患绝症的法国民歌歌手永登元次郎就是其中一个。 　　在所剩不多的生命里他回忆着玛莉小姐， 　　越来越强的思念让他想再见到玛莉小姐， 　　在她面前唱起他们共同的歌…。 　　本片参展加拿大多伦多国际电影节、 　　温哥华国际电影节、 　　釜山国际电影节等多个国际电影节， 　　在日本国内获得文化厅纪录电影优秀奖、 　　横滨电影节新人导演奖等9个奖项。

横浜に住むBJは、毎晩場末のうらぶれたバーで歌っているブルースシンガー。だが歌だけでは食えない状態で、生活のために私立探偵紛いな副業でセコイ小銭を稼いでいる。そんなある日、失踪した少年・明の行方調査を依頼されたBJ。所在を見つけたものの、彼は闇組織のボスでゲイの牛宅麻の男娼となっていた。次の日、BJは久々に再会したニューヨーク時代の親友で刑事の椋を目の前で突然殺され、その上BJを何故か快く思っていなかった椋の同僚刑事・紅谷から殺人容疑をかけられて、取り調べと称したリンチを受ける。更に牛からも麻薬取引で運営している組織のメカニズムに触れたと見なされて命を狙われ、BJは窮地に陥るが……。

フリーカメラマンの上條修平は、ある夜、バーで居合わせた青年実業家・香坂正樹ともみ合いになり死亡させてしまう。バーテンの矢沢らの証言により、警察は上條の正当防衛を認め釈放する。香坂の婚約者で海運会社の社長令嬢・兵藤葵は香坂の死の真相を知るべく、上條に接近。しかし香坂の裏の顔や、上條の本心などを知る内に惹かれ合う様になる。

フリーカメラマンの上條修平は、ある夜、バーで居合わせた青年実業家・香坂正樹ともみ合いになり死亡させてしまう。バーテンの矢沢らの証言により、警察は上條の正当防衛を認め釈放する。香坂の婚約者で海運会社の社長令嬢・兵藤葵は香坂の死の真相を知るべく、上條に接近。しかし香坂の裏の顔や、上條の本心などを知る内に惹かれ合う様になる。

A man and a woman are having a candlelit dinner at a restaurant. All of a sudden the man’s appearance begins to change. The Lovers is a stop motion relationship horror and unromantic comedy about a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.

Three episodes: 　　1)The refrigerator aka Il frigorifero: 　　Gavino Puddu and his wife Adele, proletarians Sardinian residents in a modest basement of Turin , have made great sacrifices to pay in installments a huge fridge capacity of 180 liters, of which, because of their poverty, they only serve to cool the tap water and to arouse the admiration and envy of the neighbors. On the day of payment of the last installment, Gavino clumsily loses the money needed to balance. 　　The appliance store does not allow extensions: within the next day or the Puddu will be presented with due, or will be forced to look take away the refrigerator. After trying in every way to put together the sum, not huge but still prohibitively expensive for their budget (9,100 pounds), spouses reflect the ease with which their neighbor, a prostitute would-be masseuse, he manages to get the money, and end to convince himself of the opportunity that Adele, albeit for a single time, prostitutes herself. 　　The two have much hesitation, but all won by fear of losing the refrigerator and the well-being and social affirmation that this is for them. At the end of Adele, fell on the sidewalk, you grant to a customer for 10,000 pounds. The next day, the Puddu occur in the appliance store to settle the debt: finally the refrigerator is owned by them in all respects. Everything is resolved, if it was not in the shop Adele remains enchanted by a modern washing machine ... 　　2)The room aka La Camera: 　　Hyacinth Column, workers in the steel mills of Terni , aims to celebrate the wedding anniversary with his wife Erminia in a luxury hotel on the Costa Smeralda . The direction of the structure, however, had accepted the book for a misunderstanding, thinking that they were members of the aristocratic Colonna family : in fact all the hotels in the area are frequented exclusively by nobles or billionaires and on principle refuse to accommodate people modest condition, although willing to pay. 　　Hyacinth and Erminia, coolly turned away from the hotel where they had booked, they seek other accommodations, but always without success because their appearance and the way they do not appear compatible with the exclusive environment in which they find themselves. 　　During their wanderings from place to place both spouses are in contact with the environment of high society, totally unknown to them, and can not help but noticing the arrogance, as well as the spread of drugs and perversions of all kinds . Eventually the police confirmed that it is their right to spend at least one night in the hotel where they had booked, the management seems to be resigned to accept them until a very rich and capricciosissima British girl does not claim for himself, without any valid reason, the room assigned to the column. 　　Hyacinth, beside himself, unleashes a brawl involving all present and after the intervention of the police is forced to spend a night in jail. In very exceptional cases to Erminia is given the opportunity to spend the night in jail with her husband in the exclusive Costa Smeralda there is that the prison prepared to offer a twin proletarians. 　　3)The lion aka Il leone: 　　Giulia, Naples, and Antonio Roman, are secret lovers and meet one day a week in the villa of Castel Gandolfo owned by the principal of him. At the end of one of their meetings are prepared, as usual, to leave as soon as possible to keep up appearances with their families, but a big lion do not know how happened in the garden of the villa terrifies them and prevents them from escaping. 　　During the forced immobility the two, tense for the unusual situation, give vent to various grievances towards each other and end up arguing and insulting fiercely until after the intervention of the police the lion, despite the desperate insistence of the owner of the circus from which he fled, be waived. Antonio and Julia, removed the obstacle which prevented respectable resume their lives everyday, bid goodbye affectionately as if nothing happened.

Mi-Yeon在逃避丈夫的不可靠保证，逃到乡下，因为无法忍受可悲的丈夫而迷路了。当她试图找到回家的路时，隔壁的一名男子恰巧发现了她，并邀请她在他家过夜。夜幕降临时，隔壁的男子侵犯了她的身体。