The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and perplexing police thriller centered around two murderers who thrive on slicing up schoolgirls. Calculated serial psycho Yasunaga (Tokokawa) and Chinatsu (Aso), his sweet female sidekick, find themselves being questioned as witnesses to a murder when their next potential victim turns up dead...with their M.O.

Possessing unique martial arts skills since childhood, Ma Yongzhen (Philip Ng) travels from his hometown to Shanghai to seek a livelihood. There he meets rising overlord Lung Chat (Andy On). The two youth who both possess a dream quickly befriend each other and they become brothers after going through difficulties together.Since then, the two brothers have worked hard together, defeating numerous enemies, and took down the largest triad gang the Axe Gang in one swoop, which makes them renown throughout Shanghai. At the same time, Ma also got help from retired kung fu master, the Iron Leader (Sammo Hung), to fight their common enemy.The Axe Gang was not willing to fail like this and holds a grudge against Ma and Lung while also finding a way to destroy them. Lung was then killed in a surprise attack. Ma, who was watching his brother die and was unable to help him, decides to embark on a path of vengeance.

Weedy office worker Cheung is sent to a remote village to secure property rights for his real estate company. Two martial artists run the village's teahouse, which was once the kung-fu school of their teacher Master Law. Law is in fact lying unconscious upstairs in a three decades-long coma, but he awakes when gym boss and local landlord Pong attempts to secure the teahouse for redevelopment. Law mistakes Cheung for a former student and starts training him in preparation for a martial-arts tournament at Pong's gym that will decide all their fates.

A peaceful Joseon village is disturbed by the sudden awakening of So Yeon, a young lady, who has been in a coma after surviving a drowning accident 10 years before. But So Yeon's identical twin sister Hyo Jin, who also fell into the lake, was not so fortunate. Unable to rest in peace, Hyo Jin returns as a phantom and a series of unnatural deaths ensues. Eerie weeping sounds presage the appearance of the "han" or grudge-ridden ghost, who takes one victim after another.

Five girlfriends in their early twenties live in the dingy port town of Incheon. A close-knit circle in high school, their paths begin to diverge as they step into the adult world.

At the center of the group is the beautiful and vain Hae-joo, who dreams of becoming a successful career woman. She leaves Incheon for an apartment in Seoul and a junior position with a brokerage firm.

The other girls are left behind in a state of solitude and unease; Tae-hee works for free for her parents and takes dictation from a poet suffering from cerebral palsy and Ji-young seeks a job, while caring for her grandparents in their dilapidated apartment. The twins Bi-ryu and Ohn-jo buffer themselves from change with constant togetherness.

The cellular phones ring as the girls coordinate their meetings. A lost cat, Tee tee, enters the lives of these young women, passing from one owner to the next as circumstances pull lives and friends apart and others together.

Four first-grade middle school students in the same class are members of a photography club. Before leaving for summer break, the teacher hands out an old-fashioned analogue camera to each of them and asks them to take pictures with them as a summer assignment. The assignment topic is the "end of the world." What does the end of the world mean? What on earth are they supposed to take pictures of? They all have different opinions on it, but as one of the girls suggests, they decide to take a subway to Sinchang Station, the last station on Seoul Metropolitan Subway Line 1. That is the end of the world for these girls. They doze off on the subway, stop for a while due to rain showers, and feel drawn to an unfamiliar world.

Peggy is an Indian girl with an unusual upbringing by a Chinese mother, and is often insulted and bullied by peers in school. One day, Marco from Hong Kong moves in next door, and through some odd circumstances both neighbours find a truce, and eventually, love.