王家姚

*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.

光头强是一名普通程序员，却常梦见陌生的森林和两头狗熊。直到他跟上司出访大客户，终于想起：他原是森林的小导游，偶然得到一次重新选择人生的机会。为了挽救旧时间线里的熊大熊二，光头强开始一场奇妙的时空冒险。

友引高中即将迎来新一年的学园祭，上到老师，下到学生，却都为了这个重要节日而忙碌。虽然应名还有最后一天的准备时间，但是日复一日，年复一年，学园祭开幕式却迟迟未能举行。疲劳的温泉老师从中感到蹊跷，他感到自己与周围的人每年都过着同样的生活，却丝毫未能察觉奇怪之处。温泉将这个想法告诉了樱花老师，两人商议命令天天泡在学校的学生们回家，可是无论如何兜兜转转，面堂等人最终还是回到了学校门口，而留守的温泉老师也就此失踪。经过数日同样的诡异生活，面堂、阿当等人同意与樱花老师成立事件真相纠察小组，大家一同进入了时间和空间分外诡异的友引高中……本片根据漫画家高桥留美子的原作改编，是该系列动画的第二部电影版，导演押井守对影片的全新诠释却引起了原作者的不满。

上一部结尾，尼奥（基奴李维斯 饰）终于意识到自己的能力和使命，中弹复活后，变成了无所不能的“救世主”，他和女友崔妮蒂（凯莉·安·摩丝 饰），舰长墨菲斯（劳伦斯·菲什伯恩 饰）回到了人类的基地锡安，受到人们的热烈欢迎。此时，“母体”决定先下手为强，派出了两万五千只电子乌贼攻击锡安基地；墨菲斯、尼奥和崔妮蒂则再次进入“母体”，寻找“制钥者”，准备从内部破坏；而本该被尼奥消灭的特勤史密斯似乎出了点问题，脱离了“母体”的控制，拥有可怕的复制能力，阻碍尼奥他们的行动。