A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.

Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei crisscross, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.

该片被誉为台湾“新电影”的开山之作。
四位导演拍摄的四段故事构成了童年（小学）、少年（中学）、青年（大学）、成年（社会）四个人生阶段。
每个阶段都有相应的梦幻世界的快乐和现实世界的烦恼，只是随着年岁增长，两者比例会有改变。
童年因某个好伙伴的离去而忧伤的小朋友（《小龙人》），成人结婚后的烦恼，可能会是因钥匙丢在房里只能穿着短裤在外面晃动（《报上名来》）。而青春期时被帅气强壮的大学生房客吸引了目光的女孩（《指望》），进了大学未尝不会变成另一种模样（《跳蛙》）——人生充满多种可能，阶段的人生也没有好坏之分，只过就好。

取材自新文化運動先驅李叔同的年輕事跡。滿清末年國力衰弱，遭列強宰割。1905年，日本與俄羅斯兩大強權為爭中國領土，在東北戰場開打，知識份子忿忿不平。同年，熱衷文藝的上海富家公子厭倦紛擾，赴東京留學，欲尋淨土潛心精進藝術。他學畫、習樂、演新劇，並與日本女子相戀，異鄉成了溫柔鄉。然而，憤青好友力勸其加入革命黨，時局壓力亦步步迫近。亂世當前，誰能置身事外？

六朝古都开封，皓月当空的夜晚，烟花绽放，人声鼎沸。在人头攒动的茶馆内，美丽少女弹着琵琶吟唱婉转悠扬的调子。一个文弱平凡的少年寄入人群，呆呆张望着台上的姑娘。演出结束后，少年和女孩提着灯笼，并肩走在河边。他们是比邻而居的旧相识，少年假托随哥哥出门应酬，顺道慕名来听女孩的演奏，唯唯诺诺，欲说还羞，对比女孩的坦荡爽朗，男孩是如此内向文弱。他们一路闲聊，全然没注意到屋顶上两个人影连番穿梭，紧紧跟在他们身后。不知不觉，两个孩子来到了恶徒云集的四角亭，争端也由此而起……
本片为华语导演杨德昌未完成的遗作《追风》样片。

In 1950s, Chinese Civil War ends with the defeat of Republic of China and the establishment of Communist China. The 93rd Division's soldiers take their families with them, exit southwestern China and enter northern Burma (Myanmar). The hike through forest is full of disasters and short of supplies, but the survivors reach and settle within border of Burma. They build a village, and ally with local armed gang to resist Burmese government's attacks. Later, the relocated government of Republic of China offers to take the soldiers and dependents to Taiwan, but some are disappointed with the government and decide to stay.

Filmed performance of Yang's one-act two-character play which shifts back and forth from comedy to much darker tones as a married couple try to figure out what to do with the body of a man the wife has killed in their kitchen.