爱的噩梦

　　故事环绕着一个美国空军基地，它吸引了酒吧和妓院，和当地的日本人，他们需要肮脏的世界来逃避现实的世界，和赚钱来勉强幸存。故事中有一段三角恋情，两个主人翁居住再拆卸的公寓大楼，另一个是当地的强盗。本片以一种罕见的角度来观看战后的日本，中下阶层和罪犯的生活。

　　一位爱斯基摩人受了受了族长的委托，来到了繁华的纽约，要告诉大家：如果人类再不改变自己的行为，那么世界将会毁灭。女孩克洛伊被他的真诚善良打动，决定帮助他。城市与质朴的碰撞，就此开始。

　　吉村公三郎代表作，也是蘇珊．桑塔最喜愛的日本經典片之一。吉村愛向難度挑戰，喜歡實驗，討厭被歸類，是松竹的壞孩子，卻因此為日本電影開創出不少可能性。影片描寫日本戰後，末落貴族變賣大宅前舉行的最後一場舞會。吉村親歷這樣的一個舞會，他用所見所感，寫出一個個玲瓏浮凸的人物：戀棧風光的父親，目空一切的兒子，不肯放下身段的大女兒...道盡大時代的種種細碎。也是原節子代表作，這個洞悉世情的次女兒與父親起舞，成為全片焦點，也為時代作了精采的解讀。
　　World War II is over, and the once-prominent Anjo family has fallen on hard times. They must finally sell the family home - but not before one last ball to recapture their glory days. However, old secrets and high emotions threaten to turn the evening into tragedy. Proud patriarch Tadahiko (Takizawa) can barely keep his unruly offspring in check, and tries every last trick to keep the house where he has spent the happiest years of his life. In his darkest hour, daughter Atsuko (frequent Ozu heroine, Hara Setsuko) shows her beleaguered father the hard-won dignity in starting over.
　　SummerIFF 2007

　　After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.