正对濑户内海的冈山县牛窓市，亲爱虽然隶属于濑户内市，亲爱不过却被称为“日本的爱琴海”，此外《万叶集》中诗人柿本人麻吕对它的吟咏歌颂也让这座小城镇自古以来就为世人所熟知。靠海吃海的冈山县是日本境内仅次于广岛的牡蛎产地，当地人世代从事牡蛎的养殖工作。但是随着人口过疏化和老龄化问题的日益严重，从前牛窓市内的20所牡蛎加工厂已经锐减到6所了。为了缓解劳动力短缺的现状，这些工厂近些年开始接收来自中国的工人。受东日本大地震影响，原本在宫城县南三陆町世代经营牡蛎工厂的渡边先生不得不搬到牛窓，重新白手起家。他的工厂招进了两名中国人，语言、生活习俗的差异让彼此都感到艰难。附近的工厂里，则有中国工人一去不返的情况出现。举步维艰的牡蛎工厂，是否能够延续下去？本片是导演想田和弘“观察映画”系列的第六部。
王晓南
回复 :五位著名导演，各自执导了一段关于二十岁恋情的短片。一、特吕弗《安托万与柯莱特》：《四百下》男主角安托万人生故事的延续，安托万暗恋上比自己年纪稍大的柯莱特，柯莱特却只把他当作弟弟般地看待，安托万的早恋就此无疾而终。二、瓦伊达《华沙》：少女爱上了在动物园里见义勇为的男子，而力邀他参与家里的青年朋友聚会。不经意间，一些场景细节勾起了男子战时的记忆伤痕……三、罗西里尼（无标题）：可怜的下层女孩不甘心充当第三者，却被成熟老练的贵妇寥寥数语击溃了心理防线……四、石原慎太郎（无标题）：年轻的工人暗恋上气质非凡的女子，尽管每天都会在路上碰面，他却不敢有所表达而沉耽于幻想，被压抑的强烈欲望最终引发为悲剧。五、马克斯•奥菲尔斯（无标题）：借助于往昔青春岁月的甜蜜回忆，一对夫妇逐步修复彼此之间的关系裂痕。
周渔
回复 :妻子去世多年，寡言的山平（笠智众）已习惯被待嫁的女儿道子（岩下志麻）贴心照料的生活。道子表面看来也乐意将老父亲照料，从没流露嫁人的渴望。山平老年乐事是与中学时代的几个老友饮酒叙谈，席间友人每谈及道子的婚事、表示要同她介绍对象，山平总会含糊其辞地拒绝，但怕面对什么，他也并不能想清。不过每次饮酒他都会适可而止，以避免酒醉给道子带来太多麻烦。这日中学同窗聚会，山平得知老师当年漂亮的女儿为将他照顾至今未嫁，后送醉酒的老师归家，见漂亮人儿今已衰老憔悴，他心里一惊，想到道子。其后，他示意道子考虑婚姻大事，道子却理解为父亲在赶她出门悲伤不已，他好言相劝她方含泪点头。道子答应一刻，他又心生无限酸楚。
叶佩雯
回复 :Siddartha (Dhritiman Chatterjee) is forced to discontinue his medical studies due to unexpected and brutal death of his father. He has to now find a job in stead. In one job interview, he is asked to name the most significant world event in the last ten years. His reply is 'the plain human courage shown by the people of Vietnam', instead of the expected - man landing on moon. The interviewer asks is he is a communist. Needles to say that he does not get the job.He reaches a coffee shop where he is offered to work for the communist party. When he does not show any interest the party leader tells him about an opening for a medical representative. To escape from the heat and have a snooze, he goes in to a cinema. As a government propaganda newsreel is being shown before the feature, a bomb explodes in the cinema hall. In the stampede that follows, Siddartha, breaks his watch. He goes to a watchmaker but he cannot afford the repairs.Waiting to cross the road, he notices a sexy girl. He drifts back to his days as a medical student in a flashback. The professor is explaining anatomy of female breast. Many flashbacks and dreams occur to Siddartha through the film.On his way to hostel, he has an encounter with some hippies. Along with an ex-classmate, he goes out to see a porn film but to their disappointment, the film turns out to be not-so-pornographic.In such constant wandering in a Calcutta, disintegrated relationships with his sister and a Naxalite (militant communist) brother, his friendship with Keya is only thing that keeps him sane.Keya is a simple girl. They enjoy each other's company but they cannot make any commitment to each other due to the circumstances.After yet another attempt at a job interview, Siddartha leaves the big city to take a modest job of a salesman in a far off small town. He writes to Keya that he still cherishes their relationship. And that he has heard that bird call again but this time it is for real, and not his mind. After completing the letter, he comes out to the balcony of his modest room. The bird calls again. He also hears the sombre chants of a funeral procession. As he turns to the camera, the picture is frozen.This is the first film of the Calcutta Trilogy. The other two were and Seemabaddha (Company Limited, 1971) and Jana Aranya (The Middle Man, 1975). All the three films study the effect the big city of Calcutta has on the educated youth and the price it extracts from them.The seventies were a difficult period for India and West Bengal. The Corruption was rampant; the Naxalite movement had created havoc in Calcutta. In fact, they had turned parts of Calcutta into 'liberated zones'. By the time the Naxalite movement died down, in 1975, Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then, Prime Minister of India) suppressed the fundamental rights and declared "Emergency" for her own political survival. Her son, Sanjay Gandhi became a dictator of sorts without any official designation. The opposition leaders were thrown into prisons.About his social responsibilities as a filmmaker, in an interview with Cineaste magazine, Ray commented, "You can see my attitude in The Adversary where you have two brothers. The younger brother is a Naxalite. There is no doubt that the elder brother admires the younger brother for his bravery and convictions. The film is not ambiguous about that. As a filmmaker, however, I was more interested in the elder brother because he is the vacillating character. As a psychological entity, as a human being with doubts, he is a more interesting character to me. The younger brother has already identified himself with a cause. That makes him part of a total attitude and makes him unimportant. The Naxalite movement takes over. He, as a person, becomes insignificant."In a letter to Seton in 1970, Ray wrote that Pratidwandi was the most provocative film he had made till then. The film is said to have evoked extreme reactions. "People either loved the film or hated it", Dhritiman Chatterjee told Andrew Robinson, Ray's biographer.
