松泽环出生于一个富裕家庭，在她就读的大小姐学校里享有极高的地位。父亲的公司破产后，她的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化，但她难以向朋友说出实情。就在这时，她被同学新岛玛利亚敲击和太鼓的声音所吸引。玛丽亚因交通事故导致声带受损，无法正常说话，因此和太鼓成了她的语言。从那之后，环也迷上了和太鼓，并在与和太鼓社团一同成长的过程中渐渐打开了心房。本片改编自漫画《和太鼓少女》，描绘了与周围格格不入的青春期少女因“声音”而相遇的故事。

香港重案组督察Sam（黎明）率众捣毁了某跨国犯罪组织的巢穴，并把该组织首脑之一Night（尹子维）捸捕归案，但他没想到的是， Night会在其花重金聘请的能言善辩的律师团的帮助下仅以协助偷运人蛇罪被判3年监禁，对此Sam虽很失望，但仍暂时舒了口气，携妻子Ann来到巴黎游玩散心。谁料Night的哥哥Day派的杀手早在巴黎埋伏。在巴黎购物中心，Ann不幸被杀手暗杀，Sam虽侥幸逃脱，却无法安然接受事实。回到香港后，Sam 辞掉了督察职务，开始了隐居生活，可是在无意间结识来自日本的漂亮女记者（濑户朝香）后，他对生活又有了新的理解。

享誉武林的醉拳分南北两派。北派代表人物是沧州的千醉翁，他将醉拳和螳螂拳相结合，创出一套新的拳法——“醉螳螂”。千醉翁为人心狠手辣，他苦练创新的目的并非强身健体除暴安良，沿袭武学精神，而是想要称霸武林。为了证明北醉拳的功力天下第一，千醉翁带着徒弟来到南方寻找南醉拳苏花子一决高下。但苏花子整年云游在外，神龙见首不见尾，要想找到他并非易事。恰巧此刻苏花子刚好回到家中，见到了老伴收养的义子苏蒙。苏蒙为人忠厚老实、心地善良，一心想向苏花子学习醉拳。但苏花子见他并非习武奇才，不愿传授。为了磨练苏蒙，苏花子使出许多奇怪的训练招数让苏蒙苦不堪言。苏蒙认为苏花子不喜欢自己，便不辞而别到酒楼中当起了伙计。苏蒙遇到了住在酒楼里的千醉翁，并被他的徒弟侮辱。苏蒙回到家中把此事转告苏花子，苏花子明白千醉翁的来意，便来到酒楼与千醉翁比武，被千醉翁的“醉螳螂”打成重伤。苏蒙在为苏花子抓药途中遇到了苏花子的师弟病君，并开始瞒着苏花子和病君学习拳法。经过病君的指点，苏蒙在练习醉拳的基础上，加入了病拳的精髓，经过刻苦练习，苏蒙的拳法有了显著提高。苏花子病情好转，他感觉到苏蒙每日早出晚归必定有什么事情在瞒着他，于是跟踪苏蒙想探个究竟。但刚到病君家门外，便遇到了想要来斩草除根的千醉翁，两人再次过招，苏花子仍不敌千醉翁，艰难应战。此时苏蒙及时出现，他和千醉翁摆开阵势，面对千醉翁的独门武功醉螳螂，苏蒙将病拳和醉拳结合并发挥到极致，战胜了千醉翁。苏蒙终于扬眉吐气，学有所成。

*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.