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解放前的旧上海，大资本家、军阀、投机商人、洋人、流氓、骗子横行于世，他们过着养尊处优、挥金如土的腐败日子，而底层人民则穷苦不堪，生活艰辛。大头、圆鼻子、三根头发、瘦小身材，这个外貌滑稽的男孩就是本片的主人公三毛（王龙基 饰）。三毛自幼失去父母，无依无靠的他终日在上海街头流浪，身无分文的他饿极了甚至吃刷广告的浆糊，困了就睡在垃圾车里。为了生存他送报纸、推黄包车、捡烟头，然而霉运却总尾随其后，所有的事都以失败告终。他好心做善事，反遭到诬陷和殴打。不过，生活在黑暗底层的三毛始终保持着诚实善良的性格，他从不愿为一口饭而沦为他人做恶的工具……本片根据著名漫画家张乐平同名连环画改编。

某个宁静冬日，京都贵船的料理旅馆老店藤屋。站在贵船川旁的服务生美琴（藤谷理子 饰）被女将（本上真奈美 饰）叫回去工作。可是，两分钟后，她发现自己再次站在河边。而且不止她，旅馆里的其他员工和住客都开始觉得奇怪，他们发现自己被困在两分钟的循环之中。两分钟后，时间倒转，一切又回到原处，但他们的记忆却依然保留。众人决定合力找出事件背后的原因，但美琴却心情复杂……

话说满清打下天下，江山传到咸丰一朝。随着腐朽僵化的王朝一再滑落，外忧内患之际，反清复明以及推翻满人政权的革命火种如星星之火般蔓延开来，并越烧越旺。落榜举人洪秀全建立太平天国，此事成为令满清皇帝最为头疼的威胁之一。旅居海外多年的林海南（邱建国 饰）辗转回到故土，试图用华侨们凑集的巨款支援太平天国。谁知清廷早已得知消息，派出心狠手辣、诡计多端的崔佐邦（徐学义 饰）半路阻击。林海南得到戏班花锦绣的救助，并凭借一身武艺击退恶霸，挣得了“南拳王”的名号，谁知却因此使花锦绣遭遇灭顶之灾。历经苦难转交巨款之后，海南和戏班幸存者们苦练武功，发誓一定要向崔佐邦报仇……

*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.