生死抉择

美丽女孩任雨洁（傅小芸 饰）从小就拥有一个特殊的能力，她能够看到别人手上相连的红线。雨洁少不更事，曾将父母的红线剪断，导致父母随后离婚。长大后，只要她想，那一根根其他人根本看不到的红线便会出现在她的眼前。利用这种能力，雨洁帮助公司的同事兼好友Maggie和日本派来的前田组长走到了一起。只不过，她的爱情之花却迟迟没有绽放。某天，走在大街上的雨洁意外遭遇一个行色匆匆的男孩（王柏杰 饰）。她发现，这个男孩似乎也有着能看到红线的能力。只不过男孩面对她的提问不置可否，匆匆离开。此后的日子里，雨洁发现自己的手腕上也多了一根红线，但是那一头连着谁呢？

*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.

六十年代，香港警察受贿成风，赌档粉档与中间人、警方组成的利益链大肆吸金，十年内警方受贿数额达当时的百亿港币之巨。九龙城区便衣火麒麟（黄秋生 饰）为破案不择手段，上峰施压，火麒麟如常去街上拉人顶罪，大学生韩志邦（方力申 饰）遭其陷害毒打，韩母托老警员找到警方与帮会的中间人猪油仔（王晶 饰）出面搭救得脱。人称乐哥的徐乐功（梁家辉 饰）时任华人总探，为人狂妄，出手大方。陈细九（陈奕迅 饰）心地善良尤擅察言观色，深得乐哥赏识，短短五年之内由普通便衣晋升至筲箕湾区探长，但代价之一是家中为掩人耳目收留了各位大哥的九名情妇……1974年，香港的贪污恶风震动国际，廉政公署成立，长官严国梁（林保怡 饰）聘用大学生韩志邦、失意警员火麒麟等组成第一批廉政专员队伍，严厉打击香港的地下规则。陈细九因贪污案发人财两空之际，却意外的发现了此生真爱……

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