电视剧幸福在招手

清末民初，时局崩坏，孙中山等革命者为推翻清廷统治，四处活动筹集经费，不想却落入了汉奸袁四爷（黄秋生 饰）手中，孙中山被其秘密囚禁，革命党阿华（陈百祥 饰）死里逃生，向五位江湖异人发信求救。于是钟国仁（钟镇涛 饰）、杜海轮（谭咏麟 饰）、沈四官（陈友 饰）、彭健康、费强五名江湖奇人相聚一堂，筹划搭救革命志士，做事颠倒的五人误会了阿华的手信，认为一个名为“铁拳无敌孙中山”的高手将是他们完成任务的最大障碍。钟国仁潜入袁四爷家中，以汉奸的面目获其认可，又以蒙面革命党的身份与袁妹阿琳（陈法蓉 饰）相识相恋，阿琳与其兄不同，同情革命事业，钟国仁为了完成革命任务只得忍痛令杜海轮假扮自己与阿琳接触……本片是为了纪念温拿乐队成军20周年而拍摄。

母子共同經營的“諾曼汽車旅館”再度開張，新來的房客請小心！在經過多年隔離與心理治療後，諾曼貝茲（安東尼柏金斯，「激情之罪」）決定自己可以再次當個稱職的汽車旅館老闆，給他的房客一個溫暖而血腥的接待；韓特警長、餐館老闆、以及女侍梅娜都認為諾曼已改頭換面，但事實上卻不是這麼一回事，剛購入製冰器的諾曼決定讓這台嶄新的機器增加一項新用途，實驗對象則是不知情的房客們，加上總是只聞其聲，不見其人的諾曼"媽媽"在一旁推波助瀾，喜愛恐怖片的觀眾即將再次領略驚聲尖叫的刺激快感；本片是由男主角安東尼柏金斯親自執導，並邀來澳洲籍演員傑夫法漢（「神鬼奇兵」、「鐵迷宮」）參與演出。

影片描绘了通过荧幕窗口进入的虚拟社交世界。在这个世界里，现实已退位，人人都是表演者，同时也是围观者。主角小蝶抱着一颗渴望被关注的心，加入了这场在电子世界的狂欢，但却一直郁郁不得志，直到一天她由于过度疲劳在直播中昏倒在地……

*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.