2019跨年

*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.

又是一年快乐的六一儿童节到来了，慈祥的太阳公公坐在天堂的宫殿上，感叹孩子们起得比他还早。虽然经过了万万年的岁月，但是太阳公公史无前例地决定邀请地球上的小朋友们来到他的宫殿过节。当然在此之前一定要发出请帖，于是太阳公公委托可爱调皮的光之使者去地球传达这一好消息。地球上，小朋友们在自己的节日里快乐玩耍，无忧无虑，来自太阳公公的请帖无疑为他们增添了更大的喜悦。与此同时，还有很多生活在战火与贫穷的小朋友们，他们为了吃饱肚子而愁坏脑筋，四处捡垃圾的同时又要遭到冷嘲热讽，无力谩骂。孩子们的节日，权且让他们聚在太阳宫，平等享受太阳公公所赐予的快乐与温暖吧！

故事发生在第一次世界大战期间，强尼（蒂姆斯·伯特姆斯 Timothy Bottoms 饰）是一位普通的美国青年，怀着报效祖国的心情拿起枪杆走上了战场。不幸的是，在残酷的战争中，强尼身受重伤，失去了他英俊的面庞，也彻底失去了行动能力。残缺不堪的强尼被送入了陆军医院，对亲人的思念支撑着强尼度过了一个又一个充满了疼痛和绝望的夜晚。福斯（黛安·瓦西 Diane Varsi 饰）是医院里的一名护士，负责照料强尼。因为强尼的声带被破坏了无法说话，所以福斯使用了摩斯电码同她进行交谈。善良温柔的福斯渐渐唤醒了强尼内心里对于生存的渴望，可不久之后，福斯不见了。

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