吸血鬼学院

山本貴嗣の学園ギャグバイオレンス漫画『最終教師』をOVA化。発売に先がけて『銀河英雄伝説』の同時上映作品としておよそ一ヵ月半早く劇場公開された。遺伝子工学研究所から一匹のゴキブリ人間が逃走して3年。五日市町にある関東最悪の異名をとる「私立帝王学園」に新しく赴任した教師・茶羽顔八こそ、かの人間とゴキブリを融合させたゴキブリ人間だった。札付き揃いの学園の生徒をすべて屈服させるべく、顔八は総番長の美少女・白鳥雛子にお仕置きを目論む。はたして顔八は服装検査をはじめて彼女を下着丸出しにしてやろうとするが、何と雛子はブルマーを着用していた。これを機に雛子を慕っていた男子は少しずつ心変わりして顔八に味方するようになり、彼女もショックで不登校状態に。学園はこのまま顔八の思うがままにされるのだろうか。本作の見どころのひとつは、個性派俳優として頭角を現わしはじめた竹中直人が顔八を怪演している点。監督と作画監督は『北斗の拳』などで知られる芦田豊雄が務めた。

*Shinjuku Mad* was one ofKoji Wakamatsu's six films from 1970. Grim and gritty, stark and steady, burdened with anti-moralizing, generously padded with sex, and totally redeemed by a soundtrack that needs to be released NOW. I knew nothing about this film, loading it up on to my laptop, and every last one of this film's sixty-sixty minutes kept me riveted.Bear with me. The film opens with the band cycling through a jazzy rave-up, the black and images depict dead Japanese throughout a modern city. From the alleyways of the slums, to center of the park, you catch glimpses of bodies everywhere. This introduction is capped off by a lingering shot of a blood-soaked naked woman, face down. By this point, the band has reached a sort of peak. There's a cut, the band changes the direction of the song a bit, and then we're treated to a series of exterior shots from downtown, the lunch hour, maybe. You see a lot of storefronts and stairwells, people moving about. All of the people in these splices are done in negative image.What follows can only be described as harrowing. After the credits, the reel switches to color. We're treated to the on-screen stabbing of a young man in a toga, his attackers strip his special lady-friend of her toga, spend about two minutes smearing her breasts with still-warm blood, and then take turns raping her. She doesn't seem to put up much of a fight. The scene is lensed with all of the enthusiasm of a television spot for a whole foods market.Well, that's a fucked up way to start a movie. If you're still reading, I'll have you know the brutality eases up a little, but the camera's tendency to seek out each scene's more lurid details is relentless. The band never lets up, either. Another constant feature of the film is the protagonist's alienation from society. That's a pretty dated-concept, in a way. This film is cashing in on what could loosely be called the Existential demographic in 1970's Japan. Parts of it could have been written by Oe. Others by Mishima. It definitely, at times, addresses a bit of that lingering air of revolution, but more on that later.The father of the kid stabbed in Technicolor shows up in the nest reel, in the same apartment his son was murdered in. This confused, grieving father asks a totally baked Shoko Asahara for information about the events leading up to his son's death. The long-haired no-goodnik is toking on a Sharpie-sized doobie. He gets so fucking high he passes out and the dad is left there in the empty apartment, getting a major contact-buzz.So, the plot is basically that kind of exchange in larger and larger settings, intercut with glorious shots of the disillusioned father walking through industrial slums. The father, searching for the "Why" to his son's death goes on his quest and pisses just about everyone he comes into contact with off. He goes into subway stations and totally kills some beatniks' buzzes. Then he bullies a Hare Krishna ROCK AND ROLL SUPERSTAR and his belly-dancing percussionist at a park. Then he heads off to a bar, and we're treated to what must have been Tokyo's Greatest Garage Band getting low-down and sleazy here. This scene pretty much sums up what the film is about. As you dig the scuzz and the fuzz, the camera catches all manner of degeneracy and wanton reefer-use. And the bar has no less than three groups of people making out. And they get excessive with the groping.Eventually, the father catches the ringleader of the vicious band of murderer-rapists. "Shinjuku Mad," is his name. After an unbelievably long and convoluted exchange between the protagonist and Shinjuku Mad, it comes out that Mad and the boys are rebelling against all of Japan. It's open season on everyone but them. His son was only a casualty, nothing personal. Their intent is to go on rebelling against society through random acts of violence against people and property.After going through all the trouble of finding Shinjuku Mad, the old man's mind is blown by revolution for revolution's sake. After a few pummellings, he manages to turn the fight around. He winds up leaving with a nude girl that had been tied to a post for the entire scene.He goes back to the apartment his son was murdered in to find his special lady-friend naked with six other dope-smoking cats grooving on free love and blue balls.He decides he's happier with Shinjuku Mad alive and kicking, the band is at another one of its high points, and the camera pans out to the railroad yard, telephones wires, and the bare sides of modern buildings.That was Japan, thirty-seven years ago.

闻名中外，曾担任美国赌场保安总顾问的魔术手石一坚（周润发 饰），终回流澳门退休，更宴请各方朋友到来庆祝生日宴。其中好友Benz哥（许绍雄 饰）与他的儿子晒冷（谢霆锋 饰）以及外甥牛必胜（杜汶泽 饰），更特别由香港来到澳门到贺。翌日，大陆、香港以及澳门三地警方，竟不相约 而同找上石一坚，希望他能够重出江湖帮忙对付DOA组织集团的高先生（高虎 饰），但坚却以退休为由婉拒了事。另一边厢，冷竟与牛必胜一起找上门，希望坚收他俩为徙弟，坚哥虽欣赏小冷，但奈何经已退休，只好拒绝，但看在Benz哥份上，就招待他一夜。谁不知，当晚竟遇上了杀手（张晋 饰），杀手们不问原因直接追击小冷以及坚哥爱女阿彩（童菲 饰）。期间虽有中国公安洛欣（景甜 饰）相救，但阿彩终难逃一劫，被害至失忆。明查暗访下才知道，幕后的黑手竟是高先生。事情又岂会是无缘无故发生，坚与小冷二人连手，加上女公安洛欣三人，布下奇谋妙计对付高先生，斗智斗力，誓要查个水落石出，将他绳之于法……

歌舞伎町是一个鱼龙混杂危险的地方。某天一辆运钞车被劫，犯罪者龙一（竹内力 饰）及其同伴是当年二战后返日的中国残留孤儿后代。在身份不被认同的祖国里，他们行走于社会边缘，无恶不作。克尽职守的警官城岛（哀川翔 饰）接手此案，经过仔细调查，案情逐渐浮出水面。在一次警匪枪战中，城岛痛失搭档井上（寺岛进 饰），小龙之弟（柏谷みちすけ 饰）亦中弹身亡，两人仇恨愈深。小龙为弟报仇，杀害城岛家人。痛失妻女的城岛辞去警官职务，开始了对小龙一伙人的猎杀追逐……本片为三池崇史1999年黑帮犯罪影片，“生死格斗三部曲”第一部。