The story of the Korean War is told through powerful color imagery, dramatic musical score and sound-scape. In the first episode, the summer of 1950 sees the people of Korea trapped in the vice-like grip of the beginnings of the Cold War, as the two new superpowers of the postwar world flex their muscles--the United States and the Soviet Union. In part 2 while the diplomats wrangle and the negotiators argue, the fighting in the blighted Korean countryside continues. Towns and villages lay in ruins, the hillsides and valleys are scarred by bomb craters, as negotiators attempt to handle the sensitive issue of the repatriation of prisoners of war.

The story of the Korean War is told through powerful color imagery, dramatic musical score and sound-scape. In the first episode, the summer of 1950 sees the people of Korea trapped in the vice-like grip of the beginnings of the Cold War, as the two new superpowers of the postwar world flex their muscles--the United States and the Soviet Union. In part 2 while the diplomats wrangle and the negotiators argue, the fighting in the blighted Korean countryside continues. Towns and villages lay in ruins, the hillsides and valleys are scarred by bomb craters, as negotiators attempt to handle the sensitive issue of the repatriation of prisoners of war.

影片的第一个镜头是几个充气的气囊；接着是穿着短裙的芭蕾舞女演员，然后是歌剧院广场的前景和拳击手挥舞剧院的动作。歌剧院广场，一个达达派艺术家在沉思，要烧掉歌剧院。于是，火柴划着了。拳击手挥起双拳再一次向大歌剧院打去。庙宇的立柱。在高楼的平顶上，达达派艺术家曼·雷伊和画家杜尚正在下棋。突然，喷射而来的水搅乱了棋局。女舞蹈演员的舞步。女人的脸和水母的眼。一颗鸟蛋在喷泉吐出的水柱中蹦跳。芭蕾舞团的主要演员扮成罗尔猎人出现在屋顶上。他瞄准鸟蛋。蛋仿佛在水柱中起舞。开枪。蛋壳破裂。一只白鸽破壳而出。达达派画家端着猎枪。瞄准、射击，猎人应声跌落。一辆由骆驼拖曳的灵车载着死者的棺木，缓缓驶在巴黎的郊区大路上。灵柩上放着饼干花环，送葬者挂着哀恸的神情。灵车越走越快，终于狂奔起来。跟在车后的绅士、太太们疯狂追赶。最后，灵车撞到墙上，棺木掀翻，死者穿着魔术师的装束，从棺木里爬出。他挥动魔杖。追来的人群立即消失，他又点了一下自己的胸口，他也倏忽同隐去。

影片的第一个镜头是几个充气的气囊；接着是穿着短裙的芭蕾舞女演员，然后是歌剧院广场的前景和拳击手挥舞剧院的动作。歌剧院广场，一个达达派艺术家在沉思，要烧掉歌剧院。于是，火柴划着了。拳击手挥起双拳再一次向大歌剧院打去。庙宇的立柱。在高楼的平顶上，达达派艺术家曼·雷伊和画家杜尚正在下棋。突然，喷射而来的水搅乱了棋局......

贵苍翔（木村拓哉 饰）的理想是成为一名建筑师，尽管现实和梦想之间距离颇远，但贵苍翔从未产生过放弃理想的念头。一次偶然中，他和女友小花（宫泽理惠 饰）一同结识了著名建筑家耕介（田村正和 饰），耕介十分欣赏贵苍翔的理想和抱负，决心助他一臂之力。 　　之后，贵苍翔的生活豁然开朗，同时，他与小花之间稳定而又平和的关系开始发生了改变。让贵苍翔没有想到的是，随着时间的推移，小花竟然渐渐地和年长她许多的耕介走到了一起，深感遭到背叛的贵苍翔将全部精力投入到了工作之中，哪知道再次节骨眼上，他的事业亦遭遇了瓶颈，贵苍翔深深感到了何为绝望。

袁喆（吴佩慈饰）一直暗恋着弟弟袁浩（彭于晏饰）的家庭教师冯尚宁（李威饰），然而，令姐弟两人感到震惊的是，他们发现身为一家之母的周崇兰（陈谊饰）竟然也对冯尚宁情有独钟，袁浩又急又气索性离家出走，之后遇见了名为高苓（刘品言饰）的美丽女孩，一段错综复杂的情缘就此展开。多年之后，袁喆已经成为了一名男孩的母亲，在和丈夫左亚夫（陈宇凡饰）分手之后，她回到了久违的故乡，重新见到了曾经的初恋情人冯尚宁，可是，时光的匆匆流逝让珍贵的重逢充满了物是人非的伤感，袁喆会怎样面对自己的感情呢？与此同时，冯尚宁亦站在人生的十字路口前，爱情尚未尘埃落定，他和弟弟冯尚羽（东明相饰）之间的亲情亦需要关注与修复。

贵苍翔（木村拓哉 饰）的理想是成为一名建筑师，尽管现实和梦想之间距离颇远，但贵苍翔从未产生过放弃理想的念头。一次偶然中，他和女友小花（宫泽理惠 饰）一同结识了著名建筑家耕介（田村正和 饰），耕介十分欣赏贵苍翔的理想和抱负，决心助他一臂之力。 　　之后，贵苍翔的生活豁然开朗，同时，他与小花之间稳定而又平和的关系开始发生了改变。让贵苍翔没有想到的是，随着时间的推移，小花竟然渐渐地和年长她许多的耕介走到了一起，深感遭到背叛的贵苍翔将全部精力投入到了工作之中，哪知道再次节骨眼上，他的事业亦遭遇了瓶颈，贵苍翔深深感到了何为绝望。

袁喆（吴佩慈饰）一直暗恋着弟弟袁浩（彭于晏饰）的家庭教师冯尚宁（李威饰），然而，令姐弟两人感到震惊的是，他们发现身为一家之母的周崇兰（陈谊饰）竟然也对冯尚宁情有独钟，袁浩又急又气索性离家出走，之后遇见了名为高苓（刘品言饰）的美丽女孩，一段错综复杂的情缘就此展开。多年之后，袁喆已经成为了一名男孩的母亲，在和丈夫左亚夫（陈宇凡饰）分手之后，她回到了久违的故乡，重新见到了曾经的初恋情人冯尚宁，可是，时光的匆匆流逝让珍贵的重逢充满了物是人非的伤感，袁喆会怎样面对自己的感情呢？与此同时，冯尚宁亦站在人生的十字路口前，爱情尚未尘埃落定，他和弟弟冯尚羽（东明相饰）之间的亲情亦需要关注与修复。

Variation, based on the book by Hiroyuki Itsuki, a novelist especially popular with women, was the final work of the late Nakahira. His previous themes of first love, disppointment, anguish and tenderness are projected as the undercurrent to this story of the renewed love of two former university students. They meet dramatically who Morii, a political radical on the run from the police, is concealed by Kyoko while performing a puppet show at the university. Their affair is cut short when Morii is forced to go into hiding. When they renew their affair ten years later after an accident meeting in Paris, the same desperation inherent in their young love again clouds their relationship: Morii's fugitive years have subjected him to a stress which has made him impotent, and once again Kyoko is plagued by Morii's inability to love her totally. Only escape seems to hold hope for reconciling their situation, and the two plan to steal away to the south of France but it seems that the couple are doomed to play only a variation on the same tragic theme of their love.

會計師阿南娶了個愛碎念且不尊重他的老婆、小兒子只有想玩英雄角色扮演遊戲時才會理他，職場上經常加班卻拿不到加班費，外表溫吞懦弱的他，終於被逼到絕望低潮。阿南壓抑的邪惡本性終於逐漸顯露，他開始幻想一些殺父棄兒的情節，最後決定謀畫一個讓他跳脫人生陰暗的藍圖…