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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.

本片由三段互无关联的故事组成。《她的回忆》：2092年，由伊瓦诺夫领导的太空垃圾回收飞船在返航途中接收到来自“宇宙坟场”的求救信号，特殊的是，信号中掺杂着歌剧《蝴蝶夫人》的唱段。队员汉兹与米格尔前往施救，却进入了一位歌剧演员艾娃的回忆，这些栩栩如生的回忆场景对船员们产生了威胁；《最臭兵器》：供职于制药公司的小职员田中信男拖着病体赶回公司，无意中服用了公司与军方合作的实验药品。自此信男成为了制造致命臭气的肉身工厂，对此毫不自知的信男却按照上司命令将药品样本送往东京总部，一路上引起大面积恐慌，军方不得不派出大批军队半路截杀信男；《大炮之街》：在一座由蒸汽驱动的城市中，一家三口展开了一天的生活。母亲去制造炮弹的工厂上班，父亲在炮台担任装填手，小儿子在学校里学习与大炮相关的知识。炮台不停开炮，但敌人的身影却始终没有出现……

孤独地离开人世的母亲福子（金海淑饰）与无意送别母亲的女儿珍珠（申敏儿饰），她们的重逢得益于母亲获得上天给予的“休假”。母亲在从阴间便一起同行的向导带领下，开始了限期三天的旅行。母亲在这期间一直观察著女儿，女儿虽然看不到母亲却能感受到她就在自己的身边徘徊。这对母女获得了新的沟通机会，她们回顾了过去的时光，也分享了现在的苦乐，一起度过梦幻般的时间。

Sarah(凯伦·吉兰 饰)在收到绝症诊断后，决定用克隆技术复制自己，以减轻她的离世对朋友和家人造成的痛苦；可她却奇迹般地康复了。然而，此时她申请销毁自己的克隆复制品的尝试却失败了，法院授权判罚：本体和克隆体必须进行决斗，两人只能活下来一个。