艳降勾魂

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

　　在一所贵族学校里，少年们个个都是精英富豪的后代，然而他们却是一群不知天高地厚的叛逆少年。他们的父母将他们送到了一个遥远的孤岛夏令营，在那里少年们会学会基本的生存技巧，从而磨练人生。然而一帮劫匪却以少年们为人质，向他们的父母敲诈百万巨款。面对死亡的威胁，少年们忽然意识到，这才是真正考验他们勇气的时刻。

　　寅次郎是个行走江湖的小摊贩，成日里到处流浪。听说父亲已经去世，家里只剩下了妹妹樱花一个人，他便赶回了家中。这天寅次郎来到叔父家，参加给妹妹樱花介绍对象的相亲之宴。由于寅次郎的谈话和举止都显得比较粗鲁，对方的印象非常糟糕，亲事也就只好告吹。寅次郎无奈地再次走上流浪之路。在奈良的一个寺庙，寅次郎碰到了帝释天寺的住持和其女儿冬子。冬子的美丽将寅次郎深深吸引，此时妹妹和一个工厂的职员恋爱并顺利结婚，这让寅次郎更深地感到了自己生活的寂寞。寅次郎鼓起勇气告诉冬子自己喜欢她，冬子却告诉他自己已经有情人了，寅次郎只好离开，继续走向漫漫的江湖之路。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.