峡谷深处

富豪私人派对上，一对男女忘我炒热气氛，只要金主敢玩，他们十倍奉还。白天，两人栖居小公寓照料幼子，她靠教舞维生，他则是潦倒音乐家。然而，手机里传来的加沙炼狱景象使他们焦虑，周遭人们却欢庆着血流成河，他们为了温饱，继续出卖灵魂。某夜，他收到酬劳可观的邀约，却必须将金主写下的魔鬼诗篇谱成新国歌。为了五斗米，他决定深入国族的集体创伤，寻找主旋律。

　　三年前的8月31日，“侵略者”巨大的母舰突如其来地降临在东京，眼看这个世界即将迎来末日。　　自此之后，绝望渐渐地融入了日常生活；大大的飞碟盘旋于空中，今天也依然不变地持续环绕着世界。而在还没有来到世界末日的此刻，小山门出、中川凰兰这两个高中女生的青春时代才正要展开。

 该片是押井守参与制作的一部动画电影。获2002年斯图加特国际动画电影节最佳长篇奖，获2001年日本文化厅文化厅MEDIA艺术祭动画大赏。1966年秋天，越南战争期间，在日本国内的美国空军横田基地内，不时可见F4幻影战斗机频繁起降，空气中充斥着一股杀戮的气氛；就在此时，基地附近的市区连续发生了离奇的命案。 地下铁，银座线，正驶著通往浅草的最后一班列车，一名少女出现在空荡的车厢内，她拥有令大人感到刺眼的眼神，紧闭着双存欲诉说她内心的真正意念，她的名字叫小夜(SAYA)；她是“组织”为了打倒潜伏于人类社会里的吸血鬼“翼手”，因而派遣至人类社会的救世主。 穿着水手服的小夜，手持日本武士刀作为武器，潜入了基地内的美国学校。一柄冷血无情的武士刀，是她消除邪魔、保护人类的武器。而她身体里这一半的人性，可能就是她打败敌人的秘诀……

　　In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes & Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his own traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a skim of beautiful illusion.

　　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.

　　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。