60岁的立花源也和28岁的摄影师井田恭二不远千里跋山涉水上门去拜访隐居了三十年的一代影星藤原千代子，为了给她拍摄一生自传的纪录片。款款前来的千代子虽然已界75岁高龄，但仍然优雅美丽，左眼下标志性的小痣也仍然俏皮。立花双手递上一把钥匙，千代子深受震动，称这把钥匙是开启一个 秘密的关键，当年她不慎丢失，今日竟还能再回手中。千代子的思绪飞到老远。
1926年9月1日，藤原千代子呱呱坠地，水灵清秀的她16岁就被星探发掘，然而直到遇上一个画家，她救他于乱世中，藏于自家仓库内，他赠她一把钥匙，说这是开启秘密的关键，并承诺再与她重逢时带她去看北海道的雪。然而次日千代子放学归家时画家已经因为逃开追捕逃离远去。
千代子自此进入电影圈，只因为画家最后说他会去满洲作战，而第一部电影承诺会去满洲取景。从此千代子的银幕生涯拉开，拍摄了代表日本战国、幕府、大正及昭和等四个不同时期的大时代爱情故事。在每一个故事里，千代子都在奔跑，追寻着自己的真爱。场景与她本身的故事糅合在一起，虚实难分。立花和井田紧随其后身临其境，时而变成故事中人物。
然而千代子丢失了钥匙，心灰意冷的她嫁给了一直追求她的导演大泷。到后来她发现一切是一个精心布下的骗局，千代子认清事实后决意继续找寻自己少女时代的所爱。

IN SHANGHAI
In Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001
short Film
In Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...
Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film .
"You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "
Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .
The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .
Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .
Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "
By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore grey, and went to church. The bohemians were the artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the radical 1960's; bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980's. Now the 'bo's' are all mixed up and it is impossible to tell an expresso sipping artist from a cappuccino-gulping banker. In attitudes toward sex, morality, leisure time and work, it is hard to separate the renegade from the company man. The new establishment has combined the countercultural sixties and the achieving eighties into one social ethos. These Bobos define our age. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we breathe, their status codes govern social life and their moral codes govern ethics and influence our politics. Our hybrid Bobo culture is going to be dominating society for a long time to come. Read all about it in this serious and witty essay on how we live now.

尤优（葛优 饰）接到个美差，拍一部宣传记录片记录好莱坞大腕导演泰勒（唐纳德.萨瑟兰 饰）在中国拍摄影片的工作过程。一开始工作顺利，但随着制片人托尼（保罗.莫索尔斯基 饰）的到来，事情起了变化。闲下来的尤优和泰勒、泰勒的助手露茜（关之琳 饰）到寺庙游览，三人相处得非常愉快。不料几天后泰勒因心脏病发作，生命垂危，他希望尤优能为自己操办个喜丧葬礼，尤优揽下活儿。
尤优找到老同学王小柱（英达 饰），泰勒将死对王来说是一个难得商机，对托尼来说也是如此，惟有尤优和露茜是怀着朴实感情面对此事。王小柱开始出谋献策，拉了好多赞助，众多商家不惜花大钱在葬礼上做广告。局面变得无法收拾，却不料，在葬礼的背后另有玄机……