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叶孤红（杨千嬅饰）生性开朗乐观，纵使历年来经历了很多倒霉事，但都让她一笑置之，更常常研究各种术法转运。城中著名堪舆学家赖料布（梁朝伟饰），自小便得祖训不得与姓叶的人结缘，叶孤红为了能得其指点，便想尽办法接近料布，二人缘分也从此开始。料布算得原来一直有高人扰乱孤红的生活，那人便是赖料布的死对头段蟹（郑中基饰）。要把叶孤红置之死地的是她父亲的第二任妻子。赖料布抛开祖训，决心和孤红携手对付段蟹。

*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.

阿有（卢冠廷 饰）与阿如（吴君如 饰）夫妻俩嗜赌如命，无奈运气不佳导致生活拮据，与借住家中的阿如亲弟阿明（黄一山 饰）不时要想办法拖延房租。他们所住的楼内有一凶屋，有舞女曾在屋中自杀，一名高僧每年定期来此为亡魂做法事超度。这天，阿有夫妻惊见某赌客大赢，从老友七哥（袁祥仁 饰）处获悉对方是用了茅山术中的“吸材气”之法转运，夫妻二人如法炮制，却将用来吸材气的僵尸毁坏。夫妻二人再使用七哥教授的养鬼之法，与同一栋楼内的舞女之鬼魂达成协议，从此二人逢赌必胜，但受女鬼“每天七点之前必须将昨天赢来的钱全部花掉”之条件限制，花钱时每每提心吊胆。这天，意外终于出现了……

故事发生在日本抗战胜利后，树子（吕秀菱 饰）自杀未遂，被哈尼族年轻军官戛沙所救。他们一起回到云南故乡，然而不幸的是，刚回去没多久，戛沙就因旧病复发而去世。戛沙的弟弟戛洛（濮存昕 饰）为了保护树子，避免她受到族人的歧视，对她悉心照料。在相处的过程中，两人逐渐产生了爱情，并按照当地的习俗结为夫妻，育有儿女。随着时间的流逝，树子对故土的思念越发强烈。她面临一个艰难的抉择，一方面是与故土相隔逾50年的分离，另一方面是她与戛洛之间日益深厚的感情。树子需要决定如何面对这个抉择，是否离开戛洛回到故乡成为了一个难题。