江南布鲁斯

*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.

TV版1-26话的回顾和《シト新生》的预告.1997年发售了VHS版,2003年06月25日发售的DVD-BOX中的Bonus Disc也收录了这一话.

莎拉（凯瑟琳·莫瑞斯 Kathryn Morris 饰）、妮可（帕翠西娅·维拉奎兹 Patricia Velasquez 饰）、卢卡斯（约翰尼·李·米勒 Jonny Lee Miller 饰）等七名FBI成员在资深教官杰克·哈里斯（方·基默 Val Kilmer 饰）的 带领下，来到离加州不远的弗涅戈小岛，他们将在岛上的虚拟小镇中进行演练，通过推理来找出绰号为“木偶师”的连环杀手。这群探员业务精湛，自命不凡，与世隔绝的小岛之行对他们来说更像一个无聊难耐的假期。但是，他们的狂妄并未持续太久。原本看似平常的推理演习，竟然开始出现死者，所有的逃生之路被切断，众人完全孤立在小岛之上。演习随即演变成一场精心策划的杀戮游戏……

成为杀手需要三个条件：一个委托，一个目标，一个报酬。单亲少女认为人活着也需要三个理由，但活着太苦，既要照顾失智母亲，又要顾店养家，还要被迫出卖身体。轮椅男缺乏自信，与老爸相依为命，渴望异性的温柔，却连召妓也被嫌弃，只能躲在残厕自慰。同是天涯沦落人，可否相濡以沫？亲爱的杀手，可否杀掉痛苦根源？童星出身的邱偲琹，演活悲惨人物，突破过往形象。近年挑战不同角色的郑人硕，饰演下肢瘫痪的弱势力量，再显演技实力。