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故事发生在抗日战争最艰苦的阶段，国民党在正面战场与日本侵略者做着殊死搏斗，而在远离大城市的后方，共产党率领的八路军则化整为零，和豺狼虎豹大打游击战，麻雀战。一马平川的冀中地区，八路军部队诱敌深入，和敌人展开周旋，最终将他们各个击破。为了进一步巩固斗争形势，晋察冀边区指派中国共产党员、八路军排长赵勇刚华北平原的张庄组建游击队，以配合八路军主力部队牵制盘踞在此地的龟田大军。赵勇刚有勇有谋，正直果敢，广泛团结群众，成为让龟田队长又恨又怕的一支有生力量。在广袤的青纱帐，华夏儿女和外来侵略者进行了一场又一场顽强斗争……

刘好（冯巩）是河北某个小县城一名普通的三轮车师傅，为人时而大大咧咧时而相当抠门，虽然生活不富裕，他还是怀抱知足常乐心态去过好每一天的日子。刘好的生命中，一共出现过三个女人。贺文兰（张澍）离开他时，给他留下和他没有血缘关系的儿子刘小好（叮当）；经别人介绍认识杨倩（徐帆）后，刘好开始与她谈论婚嫁，但对方开出的条件相当苛刻，且嫌弃他有一个儿子，实际上刘小好已经成为刘好生命的一部分；无意间结识陈红（刘孜）后，善良老实的刘好终于收获生活给予他的回报。

一个大规模的入侵行动发生，让地球几乎全灭，幸存的这一家人过着安静无声的生活，一发出声音就会被怪物抓走。《寂静之地》中的家庭必须时时保持安静，这一家人必须搞清楚哪些声音可以发出，哪些不行。父亲铺了沙子路来消音，全家人必须使用手语，还有用来沟通的照明系统…等，才能避免可怕的事情发生，因为猎杀他们的怪物无所不在，这是真正的挑战，他们必须克服生死难关，想尽办法活下去。保持安静是生存唯一法则，它们无法听到你，就无法追捕你。

*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.