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一个骗子决定撞死无能的船员，并将他们的死亡归咎于传说中的海洋生物，他不知道的是这个生物是真的，传说中的鬼海怪物真正现身了。

落第书生王生（郑少秋饰）娶妻多年，一无所出。一日自城中赶路回家时，偶遇一明艳照人之少妇尤枫（王祖贤饰）。枫自称身世可怜，被逼嫁入某大户人当妾待，正室所虐，故冒死出走，王仗义相助，愿意让枫暂居于其书齌，当晚王欲与枫行鱼水之欢，天忽亮，枫推说身体不适，拒绝了王的要求。翌日， 王往城中购胭脂水粉，欲赠枫以讨其欢心，遇玉清道人（刘洵饰），后者指王邪气缠身，王置之不理。王返家，向妻子陈氏表明心意娶枫为妾，陈氏趁枫宽衣沐浴时，竟自窗外窥得枫取下脸皮，点画胭脂之骇人情景，吓得晕死过去，王连狂奔玉清道观，求道人除魔，玉清把一尘拂予王，嘱王把它挂在寝室门外，再作打算不料枫却潜入室内，向王申诉前生之辛酸遭遇......

在一座喧嚣的繁华大都市，臭名昭著的犯罪团伙笼罩在城市上空，那就是由扒手“大坏狼”（山姆·洛克威尔 Sam Rockwell 配）、保险箱窃贼“贪心蛇”（马克·马龙 Marc Maron 配）、伪装大师“美肚鲨”（克雷格·罗宾森 Craig Robinson 配）、打手“食人鱼”（安东尼·拉莫斯 Anthony Ramos 配）以及黑客专家“骇客蛛”（奥卡菲娜 Awkwafina 配）这五个本领高超、技能各异的坏家伙组成的坏蛋联盟。但是当聪明干练的戴安狐市长（莎姬·贝兹 Zazie Beetz 配）上任后，坏蛋们的好日子算结束了。不慎落网的大坏狼自然不会轻易屈服于一介女流之手，他假意洗心革面，从此改做模范市民，谁知这一过程中他的内心开始发生了彻彻底底的变化……影片改编自艾伦·布雷比的同名漫画。

*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.