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尼崎宾馆内一妓女兴奋剂中毒后被杀害，引发兴奋剂商贩的地盘之争，进而点燃大阪最大黑社会组织坂本组和九州玄龙会之间的战火。玄龙会•岩木组年轻干部野崎（菅原文太 饰）唯一的妹妹是坂本组•米元组成员中道的妻子，这层关系令野崎在抗争中倍为尴尬。阿苏温泉七人会集会之夜，野崎的大哥岩木被一女按摩师杀害，该女系米元组派出的刺客，得知消息的野崎率部下潜入大阪，伺机行动。另一方面，玄龙会会长船田（名和宏 饰）受坂本组组长一行（小泽荣太郎 饰）邀请，双方缔结和解协定。复仇心切的野崎不顾中止命令，刺杀米元一族，两派关系再次紧张。孤军奋战的野崎更是将目标锁在坂本一行身上……

纽约探员尼克（迈克尔?道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰）是个桀骜不驯的离异男子，他最近因渎职嫌疑被风纪部门调查。某日尼克与搭档文森（安迪?加西亚 Andy Garcia 饰）在一家餐厅中偶然遇到日本黑帮的内部火并，二人虽将主犯佐藤（松田优作 饰）捕获，但佐藤抢到的神秘块状物却不翼而飞。日本方面要求引渡佐藤，尼克和文森只得押解佐藤到达大阪，岂料在飞机场，尼克误将佐藤交给了乔装后的黑帮分子。不甘心失去人犯的尼克和文森以观察员的身份，在日方助理兼翻译松本正弘（高仓健 饰）协助下继续调查佐藤一案，他们发现佐藤正与大老板菅井为了制造假钞的铜板火并。不久，文森被佐藤一伙杀害，尼克的处境也愈发艰难，但他固执的要在晦暗的陌生城市中抓到凶手……

有着“摇滚变色龙”之称的大卫·鲍伊，对于上世纪七十年代之后的全球流行音乐界、电影界、时尚界有着深远的影响力。本片是2016年大卫·鲍伊去世后，唯一一部得到鲍伊家族合作的关于鲍伊的纪录片。曾执导过《珍》等优秀纪录片的导演布莱特·摩根在拍摄前获得授权，查阅了包括鲍伊的画作、素描、录音、照片、影片、日记等总计超过500万件的档案，力图还原出鲍伊在音乐、绘画、表演等方面的多元艺术风采，并以鲍伊的采访录音作为旁白，阐述他独特的人生观。片中有大量从未公开的演唱会片段，经过修复后在IMAX大银幕的效果，足以让所有乐迷振臂欢呼。

*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.