小辣椒1983年

智淑和两位好友相约前往江原道的雪原山游玩，她们在山上结识了当地的警察，警察带着三个女孩游览，晚上四人坐在一起吃饭。但和谐的气氛很快被打破，智淑和两个朋友争吵起来，晚宴不欢而散。次日，三个女孩和好如初，一同返回汉城，而智淑始终和警察保持联系，更只身前往与他相会；拥有美满家庭的盛元正为自己的职称问题四处奔忙。适逢暑假，好友在完约他一同前往雪原山散心。他们漫无目的游荡，讨论当下的生活。回到汉城后，盛元的教授评定有了着落，他开始想起疏忽许久的情人……本片荣获1998年釜山国际电影节促进联盟奖、1999年新加坡国际电影节评委会特别奖。

⾹港，是⼀個⽂明、法治的社會，實在不應該存在⼀個不仁道、無法無天的監獄，尤其是⼀個負責收禁輕度罪犯，年齡由14歲至未滿25歲的青少年，美其名叫勞教中⼼。被囚禁的犯⼈每天經歷身、⼼、靈的虐打和侮辱，可以說那裡是⼈間地獄。主角阿凡，是⼀名古惑仔頭⽬，因⼀次與警員發⽣輕微衝突⽽被判入勞教中⼼。入獄後三⽇，已經忍受不住獄中的殘暴對待⽽決定⾃殺。獲救後，靠著⼀份堅持要出獄探望病危外婆的信念，忍辱偷⽣，⽽最終能以最短刑期離開。過程中阿凡⽬睹及經歷各種侮辱，更有遇上同囚離奇死亡的事件，真相將永遠⽯沉⼤海。真的只有⼀種⽅法讓⼈改過⾃身嗎︖世界上真的需要⼀所這樣的勞教中⼼嗎︖

故事以未曾经历统一、战乱不止的中国战国时代为舞台，主人公李信是一位秦国的少年，他因为战乱而失去双亲，并在收留自己的里长家里过着奴隶一样的生活。里长家里收留了两名战争孤儿信和漂。然而，身为孤儿的信和漂并没有因为身份的卑贱而失去志向，反而这战事频繁的乱世中，立志要成为大将军，两人一同苦练武功。他们以成为名震天下的大将军为目标，每日磨练自己，等待机会建功立业。某天，漂被带入宫中任官。及后濒死的漂回到家中，信在漂指引下，见到了因为政变而被追杀的秦国大王嬴政，他戎马天下的人生便由此拉开了序幕……

*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.