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*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.

当父亲去世后，欧尼（内森·连恩 Nathan Lane 饰）和拉尔斯（李·伊万斯 Lee Evans 饰）兄弟二人继承了一家线厂和一间旧房子。拉尔斯因不肯卖掉线厂而被势利的妻子赶出家门，而欧尼经营的餐厅突遭横祸，也被迫流落街头。无可耐克的兄弟俩只能搬去了父亲留下的老房子住。偶然间，兄弟两个得知他们住的旧房子是建筑大师的传世之作，非常具有艺术价值，价值数百万。兄弟俩决定将房子装修一番出售，但发现房子了一只常年居住的老鼠。这只聪明的老鼠对房子已经有了感情，不愿兄弟俩将它变卖，于是围绕着这幢古宅，一场人与鼠的大战即将展开......

《东京奥林匹克》获得了1965年戛纳国际电影节国际影评人奖和1966年的英国学院奖最佳纪录片奖。一个充满活力的正在崛起的民族，被镜头鲜活地记录了下来。影片中看不到一丝战败国的痕迹，更觉察不到参赛国与国之间曾经的敌意，人们能看到的只是一个战后迅速得到恢复和重建、经济繁荣昌盛、活力无穷的现代化国际大都市形象，影片海报上的人物是东京奥运会上点燃主火炬的坂井义则。年仅19岁的坂井义则是早稻田大学一年级的学生，作为一名优秀的400米选手，坂井义则却因为在国内选拔赛上的落败无缘奥运会。但是坂井义则特殊的身世使得他有了机会以不同的身份参加东京奥运会。坂井义则是广岛人，并且出生在1945年8月，也就是原子弹投到广岛的那一天，是灾难的幸存者。最终，坂井义则点燃了圣火，他代表了永远不能忘记的侵略的代价、战争的创伤，代表了人类永恒的主题，那就是和平。纪录片海报上的坂井义则低着头，看上去像是缺乏自信，但是，东京奥运会之后，不但他抬起了头，所有日本人都抬起了头。@

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