*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.

1997年，炎炎夏日。奈良的街头巷尾弥漫着慵懒古旧的气息，时间缓缓流动，空气中仿佛能够感知到来自远古的颤动。一如许多花季少年，麻生家的双胞胎圭与俊欢笑、奔跑在蜿蜒曲折的巷道间。就在下一个转弯，命运瞬息转变。仿佛神隐一般，跑在前面的哥哥圭凭空消逝，这也令麻生家的时钟从此停摆。五年过去，麻生一家的伤痛渐渐平复。俊（福永幸平 饰）已就读高中，他与青梅竹马的好友夕（兵頭祐香 饰）互有好感；父亲卓（生濑胜久 饰）专事自己的事业，母亲礼子（河濑直美 饰）则全心等待新生命的到来。某天，警察登门拜访，带来了消逝已久的圭的讯息……

布莱恩无意间被一个自称是脑魔的怪物附体，这种怪物所分泌出来的汁液能够让人获得至高无上的快乐，但同时也会带来地狱般的痛苦。布莱恩被脑魔折磨的死去活来，更要被迫杀人以便满足脑魔的日常需求……

萨巴斯丁（莱恩?菲利普 Ryan Phillippe 饰）和凯瑟琳（莎拉?米歇尔?盖拉 Sarah Michelle Gellar饰）本来是两个家庭的孩子，因为父母的结合成为了两姊弟。二人为了私心开始了一场游戏，如果萨巴斯丁输了，他的豪华跑车将归凯瑟琳所有；如果他赢了，凯瑟琳将要为他提供一夜服务。这个游戏就是，萨巴斯丁必须把校长的女儿安妮（瑞茜?威瑟斯彭 Reese Witherspoon 饰）搞到手。尽管他上过曼哈顿地区的无数女孩，但是对于安妮，却有着一定的难度——她曾经在《十七岁》杂志上发表文章声称，要把童贞留到新婚夜。对于这次有难度的猎艳行动，萨巴斯丁当然全力以赴，然而让他意外的是，游戏变得越来越复杂，超出了他的预计。