Carmen is a terrorist who falls in love with a young cop guarding a bank that she and her gang try to rob. She leads him on, the pair of them legging it to her film-maker uncle's beach pad, while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Carmen runs around naked a lot, string quartets play Beethoven, uncle (Godard himself) can't get his film act together and the romance fizzles out. As for you Bizet fans out there, make of it what you will, but 'Carmen' is in there, albeit in a con find out more...

For the first time in years, when he learns that his estranged son is gravely ill, ageing fisherman Takata boards the train to Tokyo. When his son refuses to see him daughter-in-law Rie urges Takata to watch the videotape of a documentary his son was filming in rural Yunnan about the local traditional 'nuo opera'. Moved by what he sees, Takata vows to complete his son's work. Though laden with obstacles, his odyssey into rural China, the kinship he develops with a fatherless boy and the villager find out more...