医院风云:蜕变

*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.

初夏のオフィス街を、大学生の秋山俊夫は高級乗用車を走らせていた。同乗している北島淳、森下、藤枝もみな大学四年生だ。彼らは銀行帰りの郁子の前に車を止めた。彼女は俊夫の父秋山物産社長の秘書である。郁子を無理に乗せ、淳と森下は金を奪った。俊夫はやがて「遊びもこれまでだ」と金をかえすよう命令した。郁子は「大学までいっててロクデナシね」と言い捨てて降りた。ブルジョワ息子の俊夫と藤枝は盗むことに快感を得、森下はその金に誘惑を感じ、淳はなんの興味もなかった。--数日後の夕刻、郁子は同僚の篠原から映画に誘われ困惑していた。待っていた淳は、篠原を無視して強引にパーティに誘った。会場に行くと、大きな拍手が起こった。俊夫たちが郁子を帰国したばかりの新進シャンソン歌手にデッチあげていたのだ。俊夫たちは立往生している郁子を見て喜んだ。ピアノが演奏し始めた時淳が電気のスイッチを切った。車で待っていた。翌日、淳は森下らにパーティの損害弁償を迫られた。淳が払わないというと、学生たちは郁子に電話して払うことを約束させた。乱闘となった。俊夫が金を払っておさまった。郁子がき、金を置いて去った。数日後、淳は郁子に金を返した。--彼らは、葉山の海岸で最後の夏休みを送っていた。郁子は、アルバイトを探すために東京に帰る淳と一緒になった。郁子は秋山物産のアルバイトを世話すると約束し、家に誘った。室で、淳は郁子をベッドの上に押し倒した。数日後、帰りに郁子が待っていた。淳は俊夫の車に乗って去った。淳は郁子に束縛されるのがいやで、アルバイトをやめた。アパートに訪れた郁子に、あの夜のことは遊びにすぎず、二人は無関係だと言った。藤枝がアメリカへ行くことになった。俊夫が仲間が欠けるなら解散しようと言い出した。森下は、最後の馬鹿でかい遊びをしてからにしようと郁子の銀行帰りを狙って金を奪うと言った。俊夫に拳銃を借りた。車の中で郁子を待つ森下は緊張し、淳は無表情にハンドルを握っていた。森下が郁子の鞄を奪った。淳が森下に飛びかかった。森下の拳銃が火を吐いた。淳は重傷に耐え、車で森下をひき倒した。淳は郁子に鞄を渡した。郁子は中から白い紙片を取り出した。お金は入っていなかった。淳の「あれは遊びだったんだよ」と呟く声は次第に聞こえなくなった。

根据著名作家史蒂芬·金同名小说改编。恐怖小说家麦克（约翰·库萨克 饰）喜欢带着科学设备到闹鬼的地方探险，以收集写作素材。这次他选择了海豚酒店，不顾酒店经理（塞缪尔·杰克逊 饰）的强烈劝阻，住进了曾有多名住客自杀的1408号房间。麦克如愿以偿的经历了很多恐怖事件，彻底改变了他之前对灵异现象的看法。当他终于承受不住一波一波的恐怖攻击，准备离开1408号房间时，最恐怖的事情发生了：他用尽办法也无法离开。

潮湿喧嚣的大都市内，妍舒（郑有美 饰）和未成年的妹妹秀晶（金赛纶 饰）相依为命。秀晶早年因一起事故丧失听力，内疚的妍舒背负着抚养妹妹长大成人的重任，殚精竭虑照顾秀晶的衣食住行。接连一段时间，城市中有女性神秘失踪，而她们全被一个居住在下水道里的男子（郑敬淏 饰）所劫持并杀害。男人曾遭受不幸的童年，黑暗的经历扭曲了他的性格和灵魂。他精心将下水道改造成独立的王国，通过密布在大街小巷的摄像头监视路人的行踪，并锁定狩猎目标。直到某天，秀晶也被这个男子盯上。突然中断的电话让妍舒焦虑不安，为了救出妹妹她不顾危险闯入了危险重重的下水道……