烧腊

在将军德川家齐统治下的文政年间，老中水野忠成与水野忠邦在幕府内展开激烈的权力斗争。此时，携带名刀“无想正宗”的神秘浪人眠狂四郎（长谷川博己 饰）现身江户，并受忠邦的亲信之命，暗中刺杀刺客。被他斩杀的刺客颈上佩戴着象征基督信仰的念珠。随后，狂四郎将此物交还给刺客的妹妹静香，引发信徒与豪商备前屋的反击，双方为守护与暗杀而对立。另一方面，大目付松平主水正也奉忠成之命，派遣剑豪追杀狂四郎。权谋与信仰交织，一场错综复杂的生死之战即将展开。

　　The nightmare was about a demonic possession. A long time ago, there was an evil in a small town and it was jealous of the girl and would never let her go, since the devil loved the girl. One night, the evil raped the girl and she became pregnant. After months the girl could not hide her baby, her father figured her secret out and clapped the girl in irons and locked her room door. But the evil put the gun to her father' temple and saved the girl. The father had a stroke and had been sleeping on the bed for three months and died. Time went on and the girl brought a child into the world. Naturally, people who were living in the village heard the story and they did not want to see neither the girl nor the baby since when the baby was born, plants dried in the field, fishes lost in the lake and people had prayed to the god for rain, but nothing changed in the village. People got so angry, dug a hole in front of the fountain, put her into the hole and threw stones at her face. The girl died soon after. The evil went off the deep end, took a revenge of the village and killed everyone except two sisters because the evil wanted them to take care of its baby...

　　与丈夫（安东尼·拉帕格利亚饰）庆祝完结婚25周年后不久，丈夫出差在外，达西（琼·艾伦）在车库找电池，却无意中发现丈夫就是新闻中说的“臭名昭著的连环杀手比蒂”。　　影片的小说蓝本是金2010年出版的短篇小说集《暗夜无星》（Full Dark, No Stars）中的一篇。金在接受采访时说，小说的灵感来自于2005年被捕的美国“BTK连环杀手”丹尼斯·雷德（Dennis Rader），他就有一位结婚三十四年的妻子宝拉（Paula），对他的杀人行为毫不知情。金表示，小说探讨的是，人与人之间永远不可能完全了解，即使是最爱的人也一样。

　　赤松德郎是个脚踏实地的小型运输公司老板，一直努力维持公司，然而某天他公司的货车发生轮胎飞脱导致年轻母亲死亡的事件，在警方和媒体都认为他是杀人凶手之时，赤松查出全国都出现类似的事故，全部都涉及大型汽车制造商「希望汽车公司」的汽车，于是赤松为了证明自己无罪讨回公道，只身挑战庞大企业。