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*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.

In this Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought isn't necessarily so happy after all.

这一天，汤姆和杰瑞之间爆发了一场声势浩大的大战。汤姆一路追逐，将小老鼠赶进了地下室的洞中。杰瑞躲在掩体后，自然不会放过死守洞口的敌人，于是用老鼠夹子发射了一枚西红柿，跟着又爬上制高点丢下一大鸡蛋。汤姆被突然到来的袭击打得措手不及，他四处逃窜，慌不择路。而杰瑞愈战愈勇，将香槟一字排开，酒瓶塞如炮弹一般呼啸着射向汤姆的脑袋。汤姆当然不会就此认输，他再次杀向前去，而他的对手如此聪明，早已想好各种妙招对付他。杰瑞甚至还用芝士锉（cheese grater）做了一辆战车打出漂亮的防守反击。他们的战斗逐渐升级……本片荣获1943年奥斯卡金像奖最佳动画短片奖，也是Tom and Jerry系列获得的第一个奖项。

隋朝末年，隋将王世充的侄子王仁则（于承惠 饰）在督建河防工事时，杀死了起来反抗暴虐的神腿张，但令其儿子小虎子跳河逃离虎口。小虎子被少林僧人救起收入寺中后，为报父仇毅然削发为僧，法名“觉远”（李连杰 饰）。王仁则的侍卫长遇见牧羊女白无瑕（丁岚 饰）后垂涎其美色，强行将其 抢回府并欲酒 后施暴，恰巧被只身前来报仇的觉远发现。在救白无瑕逃生的过程中，觉远因武功欠佳被王仁则刺伤，促使其回到少林寺后更加刻苦练功。后因觉远救援被王仁则追赶的李世民，少林寺遭遇劫难，觉远身上的责任更重一层。