在一个落雨的日子里，独自归家的佐伯文（松坂桃李 饰）在一座公园里邂逅落寞无助的少女更纱。他顿起恻隐之心，主动提出让女孩去他家避雨。出乎意料的是，早已被雨水湿透的女孩居然点头同意。在此之后，一男一女生活在同一屋檐下，他们的关系纯洁无瑕，互相依靠，却又保持着本分的距离。直到某天，更纱的身世之谜大白天下，而为了保护无助的小女孩，阿文也心甘情愿付出了代价。转眼过去15年，更纱（广濑铃 饰）成为一家餐馆的侍应生，她时不时还能听人提起当年的事件，心中对阿文充满愧疚。与此同时，内心的阴影依然影响着她的感情生活。直到某天，她再度邂逅那个在她心中留下深刻印记的男人……本片根据凪良汐本屋大赏获奖作品改编。

在一个弥漫着不祥气息的夜晚，约翰（彼得·穆尼 Peter Mooney 饰）和莎拉（泰勒·席林 Taylor Schilling 饰）迎来了家庭的新成员，与此同时在世界的另一个角落，某个冷血杀人狂遭受警方枪击，倒在血泊之中。此后不久，莎拉发现她这个有着异色瞳的儿子迈尔斯具有远超出同龄人的智慧，她为此兴奋不已，一门心思以天才的方式培养儿子。可是随着儿子年龄的长大，种种异相接二连三在迈尔斯的身上发生。他会在梦中用匈牙利语咒骂他人，会以残酷凶狠的手段殴打同学，他眼神中透露出来的冷酷凶残令约翰、莎拉夫妇站立不安。从他人口中得知，迈尔斯体内有可能住着另一个人的灵魂，而那个灵魂以残杀嗜血为乐……

*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.

第54届金马奖颁奖典礼将于2017年10月1日公布入围名单，并于2017年11月25日举行颁奖典礼。