禁忌3 Taboo III (1984)

 脑子缺根弦儿的九能带刀（鈴置洋孝 饰）路过邪马台古董店，在店内看到了极为珍贵的凤凰蛋。传说只要拥有这枚蛋，便可领会到威力无比的魔剑凤凰剑。为了打败宿敌乱马（山口勝平 饰），成为至高无上的强者，九能强买下凤凰蛋。不过店主（北村弘一 饰）叮嘱，无论如何千万不能将蛋放在头顶，否则将由可怕的事情发生。不幸的是，乱马无意中将蛋放在了九能的头上，一只长相奇怪的鸟儿诞生了。它帮助九能成为足以打败任何对手的强者。争强好胜的乱马无论如何都要挽回面子……本片根据高桥留美子的漫画《乱马1/2》改编，系该动画的剧场版第3部。

　　纽约，一名女童在登上一辆汽车后遇害身亡，女警梅根（艾丽莎·杜什库 Eliza Dushku 饰）调查此案，她敏锐的意识到被害女童的姓与名以及案发地三者的首字母相同，但除此之外毫无线索，梅根为查案用尽办法，然而却一无所获，反而梅根本人的精神压力日渐累积，她开始看到被害女童的幻影，终于精力不支甚至选择自杀，最后不得不接受精神治疗。两年后，再次有符合首字母规律的女童被害案件发生，此时的梅根不顾上司反对，再次介入调查，她和搭档在排查多位嫌疑人的同时，这位针对女童的“首字母杀手”作案愈发频繁。梅根究竟能否拼贴出凶手的真相？　　本片根据真实案件改编。

　　Driving home late at night during a heavy rainstorm, Glen experiences car trouble. Near where his car gets stuck, he spots a house, knocks on the door and is greeted by an oddly friendly middle-aged man, Arthur, and his younger wife, Cyndi. The strange couple pours him a drink, and then more drinks, followed by an unexpected offer that Glen can’t refuse. Elsewhere, a young woman, Katie, is feeling emotionally weighed down by a secret romantic arrangement that feels like a textbook case of gaslighting. And at the same time, in a nondescript research facility, medical professional Julie begins questioning her role in a bizarre experiment, fearing that she’s doing more harm than good.

Ayşe, Ali, Mehmet and Zeynep are middle-class millennials struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul. Either still living with their parents or hardly getting by without help from their families, they are all beset by similar woes: money crunch, joblessness, social isolation. In view of the world’s horrors that Zeynep enumerates in her diary entries, these are minor problems, ‘slight disasters’, but they are all-consuming, at least to the extent of making them cry in the still of the night. 　　However, Umut Subasi’s first feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is not a melodrama. With an appealingly light touch, it diagnoses the malaise of a generation that has run up against a dead end, one whose future prospects are indistinguishable from a game of chance. This is a world where astrology, the lottery and online personality tests compete with visa and job applications as life-shaping elements. 　　Fittingly, the film is structured around chance and coincidence, with its handful of characters encountering each other in every permutation, as though there were no world outside this small social bubble. With self-aware, frontal framing that pins characters to their surroundings and a counterintuitive musical score that turns pathos into humour, Subasi offers a social-media movie without social media, one whose characters are united in their double lives and frustrated desires. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/almost-entirely-a-slight-disaster