简介
影片中出现的大象泰，还出现在了《大象的眼泪》一片中。
影片中出现的长颈鹿Tweet曾经出现在金·凯瑞的代表作《神探飞机头》之中。
富兰克林公园动物园是波士顿当地的一家著名的动物园，1913年开业，占地72英亩。
在富兰克林公园动物园，一群动物们都很爱他们好心的饲养员Griffin Keyes（凯文·詹姆斯 Kevin James），但他们发现他和狮子在一起比跟姑娘在一起相处融洽。Griffin觉得他找到人生另一半的唯一机会就是另找一个体面的工作，此时动物们都很伤心，他们决定向Griffin展示他们的秘密：他们能说人话！为了Griffin不要离开，他们当上了他的求爱老师，可惜是以动物的方式……。因罹患肺病，曾经意气风发的作家梶（佐藤隆太 饰）心中的不安与日俱增，诗歌、音乐、书籍对他不再有吸引力，他变卖了曾经珍藏的书籍，对于主义和革命的争论也全然不感兴趣。日显羸弱的身体和殷红刺眼的鲜血，似乎无时无刻不在提醒他生命的烛火正渐渐熄灭。隔壁风流潇洒的中田（和田聪宏 饰）和一楼的革命恐怖分子，在他看来已是两个世界的人。水果摊上难得一见的柠檬，那冰冷、清香的感觉让他感知到了什么呢？
本片根据梶井基次郎的同名原著改编，系“BUNGO-日本文学シネマ”系列中的一部。。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。