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北九州を舞台に、夫に蒸発された女性が仲間に助けられながら自立していく姿を描いた作品。出演は吉永小百合、八代亜紀、風間杜夫ほか。大胆なイメージチェンジを期して、耐える女から才気闊達女へ──新境地開拓に情熱を注いだ名女優・吉永小百合が、行動力満点の快活ヒロインにチャレンジした奇想天外の傑作喜劇です。物語の主人公は、売れっ子ホステスから貿易商社の三代目夫人に収まった山岡ゆきという女。玉の輿に乗って我が世の春を謳っていたが、ある日突然、夫の駿介が、多額の借金と他の女に産ませた男の子を残して蒸発してしまった。人一倍したたかで根性のすわったゆきは、嘆き悲しむどころか、早速、夫の消息を追って九州へ。道中、つかず離れず追ってくるのは女の借金取り立て屋とトッポイ感じのスリ兼テキヤのお兄イさん。やがて三人は文字通り三人四脚で九州へ同行。詐欺とペテンの花を咲かせて、騙し騙されハチャメチャの珍道中を展開しながら、アッと驚くラストシーンに突進します。吉永小百合が軽妙洒脱な快演を披露する魅力100%の娯楽篇です。

就快放暑假了，小学生上原康一在放学回家的路上捡到一块大石头。他把石头带回了家，没想到用水一洗，里面竟跳出一只小河童来。小河童对他“咕”的叫了一声，于是康一就给它取名为“小咕”。小咕会说人类的语言，几百年来他一直被埋在在地下。康一很快就和小咕成了好朋友，他们一起洗澡，一起吃饭，一起睡觉。而其它家庭成员也接受了小咕，小河童成了上原一家的秘密。一天，小咕提出想回家和伙伴们在一起。康一为了让小咕了解外面的世界，悄悄把它带了出去。小咕发现环境已经面目全非，大吃了一惊，这个不适合就河童生存的地方根本就找不到伙伴。看到小咕难过，康一也不好受。他和小咕一起外出旅行，来到了还保存着河童传说的远野县。两人在美丽的大自然中找到了适合河童生活的地方，小咕愉快地在清澈的河里游了起来，康一也为它高兴。可是，在这里也怎么都找不到其它河童。康一听到村民们说“抓住一只河童能得一千万呢！”，赶忙带着小咕离开了那里。回到家，康一讶异地撞见了一个小报记者。原来那人听说上原家养着一只河童，一定要拍照。小咕的秘密终于被大家知道了。康一的爸爸被公司勒令一定要让河童上电视。为了上原一家，小咕答应参加电视节目。然而在到场嘉宾里，它看到了一个长得很像杀父凶手的人。就在小咕被恐惧包围的时候，电视节目现场发生了意外。它拼命逃到了外面，然而无论跑到哪里都会看到黑压压的人群。为了摆脱让它害怕的人类，小咕爬上了东京塔。夏季的烈日照得它精疲力竭。小咕俯瞰着城市，独自低语道：“哪里都找不到一个安静的地方，这里是人类的窝。我已经不行了。我要去爸爸那里……”

雷迪（罗伯特?肖 Robert Shaw 饰）是魔鬼党的头号杀手，一直从未失手。由于007（肖恩?康纳利 Sean Connery 饰）屡次破坏魔鬼党的好事，魔鬼党决心除掉他，于是放出情报说英国军方一直渴望得到的密码机在俄国。同时，俄国女郎塔迪娜（达尼埃拉?比昂什 Daniela Bianchi饰）向英国军方提出要求，只要他们协助她逃往西方，即可奉上密码机。英国军方于是派出007前往俄国接应塔迪娜，拿回密码机。这边，魔鬼党早已准备好天罗地网等待007的到来。007最终命运如何？

*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.