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《法內情》较之前作更富戏剧性。老妓女经常被一名作威作福的杂差敲诈，后来更遭到勒索巨款，终于走投无路杀死杂差。孤兒院修女找来刘志鹏道出其身世的秘密，请求他再为其生母辩护。然而法官及检控官与刘志鹏积怨甚深，在法庭上这对苦命母子完全孤立无援，正义在法理下又能否得到伸张？

*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.

今年年底佳节，照明娱乐全球卖座动画电影系列的全新篇章即将展开，有更伟大的梦想和更多超夯流行金曲。野心勃勃的无尾熊巴斯特穆恩，以及他旗下的全明星动物艺人，即将呈献史上最华丽耀眼的舞台大秀…而且是在绚烂夺目的世界娱乐之都举行。但是有一个难关：他们必须先说服全世界最孤僻的摇滚巨星－由音乐传奇人物波诺首度为动画片献声演出－加入他们的表演行列。巴斯特（金奖影帝马修麦康纳 配音）以及他旗下的艺人将他的新穆恩剧院，转变成当地最火红的表演场地，但是他现在有一个更大的野心，那就是在光芒万丈的红滩市的克里斯托塔剧院，举办一场全新歌舞大秀的首演会。完全没有任何娱乐圈的人脉可言，巴斯特和他旗下的艺人－包括总是忧心忡忡的猪妈妈萝希坦（金奖影后瑞丝薇斯朋 配音）、摇滚女豪猪爱希（史嘉蕾乔韩森 配音）、认真努力的大猩猩强尼（泰隆艾格顿 配音）、内向害羞的大象米娜（托蕾凯莉 配音），当然还有爱现猪仔刚特（尼克克罗尔 配音）－必须偷偷溜进由一匹冷血无情的娱乐大亨野狼吉米克里斯托（艾美奖得主巴比卡纳佛 配音）一手打造经营，举世闻名的克里斯托娱乐公司的办公室。为了得到克里斯托先生的注意被逼到狗急跳牆的刚特，突然灵光一闪，给了巴斯特一个超浮夸的点子，巴斯特也逼不得已採用了这个点子，那就是向克里斯托先生挂保证，他们全新的歌舞大秀将由传奇摇滚狮子歌王柯雷卡洛威（波诺 配音）领衔主演。但问题是，巴斯特从来没见过柯雷，而且这名传奇摇滚歌王早就在十几年前，因为痛失爱妻从音乐界引退，独自隐居了十几年，再也没有人见过他。当刚特正在帮助巴斯特设计出一场举世无双的舞台歌舞秀经典杰作，来自克里斯托先生的压力（以及可怕的威胁）也越来越大，巴斯特就展开一场寻找传奇摇滚狮子歌王柯雷卡洛威的大冒险，希望能够说服他重返舞台。原本只是巴斯特想要扬名立万的春秋大梦，却转变成一个现代寓言，提醒了每一个人，音乐的力量强大到足以疗癒一颗最悲伤的破碎的心。

该片由香港、韩国与泰国三位导演陈可辛、金知云与Nonzee Nimibutr的三部短片《回家》、《失忆》与《轮回》组成。《回家》讲于辉（黎明）鉴于以往经验，深信用中药泡澡能令自己死亡三年的妻子（原丽淇）复活，但因行为诡异致使警察邻居（曾志伟）警觉，引发悲剧。《失忆》讲妻子（金慧秀）死后的灵魂回忆其被丈夫（郑普硕）杀害的过程。《轮回》则是借泰国两种截然不同的传统艺术，通过街头艺人哥东（舒伟烈）的一系列离奇遭遇，讲述了“不是不报，时候未到”的因果报应。