峙甸镇

故事发生在一九零零年的冬天。日本名作家冈川龙一郎有一次在中国游学时，在南京秦准河柳荫两旁赫然发现了青楼妓寨，如此繁华昌盛的享乐之地，令冈川为之赞叹不已。在窄巷内的一间藕香院里冈川邂逅了一名少女金花，立即被她明媚清秀的气质所吸引，从此注定了冈川与金花在往后的日子里充满着爱恨纠缠的坎坷历程。由相识至相爱，短短数天，冈川与金花的爱火已像熊熊烈火，到了不可收拾的地步。当冈川回日本的时候，金花苦等不见爱人归来，唯有将精神寄托在基督真神的虚幻中，日夜祈祷，藉此补偿自我迷失的痛苦……

*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.

美国的塔尔萨，17岁的詹姆斯有一个绰号叫“摩托车手”的哥哥。“摩托车手”是一个传说中的神奇人物，擅于打架斗殴，并是一个天生的青年帮会的领袖。一天晚上，詹姆斯和女朋友帕蒂约会时碰到了号称“打架大王”的威尔科斯，“打架大王”向詹姆斯挑衅，两人打成一团。詹姆斯不是对手，多处受 伤，在这关键时刻，消失了两个星期的“摩托车手”突然出现了，赶走了“打架大王”，并照料詹姆斯。厌倦了过去生活的“摩托车手”同黑社会脱离了关系，行踪不定，但仍享有很大的名气。由于经常逃学，詹姆斯被学校开除了，帕蒂也同他分了手。一天，詹姆斯在一家动物商店发现了“摩托车手”，哥哥将一些红、蓝两色的暹罗斗鱼指给弟弟看，并告诉他：这些鱼如果被关在密闭的容器里就会相互厮杀，直至死亡。“摩托车手”要将暹罗斗鱼带到河边去放生，这样它们就不会自相残杀。但就在他走到河边的时候，却被警察开枪打死。詹姆斯遵循着哥哥最后的指示，带着暹罗斗鱼，骑上摩托车，直向大海而去。

鸦片战争后，帝国主义对中国进一步侵略，清政府媚外欺内，民不聊生。1853年，小刀会领袖刘丽川、潘启祥、周秀英等人秘密集会，策划起义。这时，潘启祥因见清官杀害无辜百姓，怒抱不平，但寡不敌众，被清兵抓走。刘丽川、周秀英为救潘启祥，加速起义准备。上海道台吴健彰为镇压百姓的反抗，将潘启祥判处死刑。处刑之日，刘丽川、周秀英等人乔装打扮，混入刑场，在潘启祥即将被问斩时，起义开始。小刀会救走潘启祥，杀退了清兵，...