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这是一部纪录片，讲1970年代美国两所宠物公墓的情形。一所经营不善，地主收回地盘作他用，于是倒闭，埋在地下的动物要被挖出来，迁墓。老板在镜头前叙述那段时光，愤然激动，怪罪于一种将动物尸体分解后再利用的工厂，动物的皮毛筋骨都能寻得用途。这工厂的老板也上镜头，铿锵说着自己的经营理念，说处理动物尸体的市场前景是多么广阔，以及这服务的绝对必要性——如果死的是羊、是马，是动物园的大象，宠物公墓只能干瞪眼。片子后段是另一间运转良好的宠物公墓，导演采访了老板，老板的两个儿子，各色的顾客。镜头前的言谈中，我们晓得这公墓各种行之有效的方法为宠物提供体面的墓地，提供祷告，提供缅怀的好环境。死去的宠物们得到一种尊严，这尊严来自与主人的朝夕相处，来自人们对于动物的良好感情。当然，这种情感只是影片的底色，导演借此要说的，是当是社会涌动的暗潮，是美国梦的一种变迁。比如公墓老板的两个儿子，一个文化不高，曾做销售员，后来卖保险，总结出许多在尘世中打拼奋斗的经验，但他还是在宠物公墓中寻得新的勃勃生机；另一个有过典型的大学生活，研究过高级的学问，玩过乐队，爱摇滚，有不成功的恋爱，经历各种思潮，如今安分守在小镇，打理公墓事务，清闲时放摇滚碟片听；或是将一只先锋牌的大音响拉出屋外，对着埋葬宠物的墓地，拨起吉他的弦。

*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.

新加坡的一家高档酒店内，工作人员与客人们上演一幕幕底色不同的人间喜剧……胖侦探（郑则仕 饰）为取得年迈委托人少妻与一男子（秦祥林 饰）偷情的证据，在酒店房间内安装摄像头，但闭路电视的接收房间却入住了三名乐队成员。这对情人在发现摄像头之后百般掩饰，乐手与服务员们却在电视机前看的不亦乐乎；署名“吴资”的骗子（吴耀汉 饰）入住酒店，却被经理（胡枫 饰）误当做低调检查工作的日本总裁。骗子借势大占便宜，从酒店狠捞一笔；旅行团导游（曾志伟 饰）为人好色，被旅行团内仇恨花心男的精神病患钟小姐（钟楚红 饰）盯上，好色导游面对钟小姐的剔骨刀无可奈何之际，另一名悲情女护士安琪（夏文汐 饰）也找上门来；迷恋女上司（王祖贤 饰）的酒店技工（张学友 饰）苦苦求爱，不经意间忽视了假小子同事（叶童 饰）的默默付出。

故事发生在民国初年，月黑风高的夜晚，阴冷萧索，鬼影幢幢。江南某个古老小镇，一个有着悠久历史沉淀的人家，突然传来了凄厉的呼声。次日中午，县座局长带着手下匆匆前来，原来住在商会会长周哲庵家中的远方亲戚的孩子意外死亡，目睹现场的女仆被吓得疯疯癫癫，她一口咬定这个青年是被狐狸精要死。经过现场勘查，青年确系为狐狸咬死，然而现场的种种疑点依旧让人无法匆匆定案。适逢中秋，县长请来当地名流、周哲庵、新任司法部长赵景白、佛门高僧如海法师以及风尘女子吴佩玉。吴佩玉请来名歌女小孔雀献艺，谁想小孔雀竟在席间身亡。狐狸迷案，难辨真凶……本片改编自高罗佩《大唐狄仁杰断案传奇》中的一则故事。