陆贞传奇19

こだか和麻原作による人気漫画のOVA版第1巻。高校剣道界で最強と恐れられていた蘭丸だったが、恋人・圭の命を狙った何者かの襲撃により、半身不随の状態になってしまう。その後、厳しいリハビリに耐え、歩くことが可能になった蘭丸だったが…。

李伯仁（郑伊健 饰）是澳门赌场的服务生，由于他技巧高超，所以两年来他的桌子一直赢钱，从未输过。不过，伯仁不甘心做一个小喽啰，希望能有朝一日去赌城拉斯维加斯风光。可是，当他把这个梦想告诉同伴，却遭到对方一阵奚落。偏偏此时，他又被女友抛弃，走投无路之际，他要同伴将保险箱的钱借给他做赌资，同伴开始并不同意，后被他慷慨激昂的演说打动，铤而走险。他们来到赌城，手风很顺，可到了终盘，却被一个长发男子击败。心灰意冷的伯仁接连遭遇不测。一场车祸后，伯仁在医院醒来，此时他见到了负责此案调查的美丽女干探提娜（张柏芝 饰）。在交往中，伯仁揭穿了提娜男友真面目，导致二人分手。与此同时，他们的命运竟然也因红番回头石而发生了翻转……

查理（吴镇宇 饰）是一个假装残疾的骗子，冯仁炳（郑中基 饰）是一个无所事事的村长， 自称恶人的两人对初来村中的美女余真（江疏影 饰）一见倾心。余真因怀孕和前男友反目而出走来到此地，无依无靠之时遂心生妙计，邀查理和阿炳来到家中共度晚餐。酒醉后余真故意让两人误以为与她促成好事导致怀孕，两人上当，难辨谁为亲生父亲，于是共同照顾余真。一日， 两人发现都不是孩子的亲生父亲，于是怒把余真交还给她前男友换取钱财。事成后，二人偶然得知余真前男友想拿孩子做实验，于是查理和阿炳两人念及旧情，决定去营救余真和她即将出世的孩子……

*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.