*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.

本片是一部mocumentary（伪纪录片），受访嘉宾包括台湾立委邱毅，知名艺人蔡康永、小S、Ella等。因主演台湾新电影《小毕的故事》、《风柜来的人》等被观众认识，执导偶像剧《求婚事务所》、《吐司男之吻》等被观众熟悉的豆子（钮承泽）就“是否幸福”街头随访台湾民众，众人皆摇头，随后他与“哈拉之友”陈希圣（杨德昌《一一》等电影的制片人）、冯家瑞（台湾偶像剧之父）等聊起台湾包括传媒在内的种种混乱现状，认为皆是政治的怪力乱神所致，越讨论越兴奋，拍一部mocumentary的念头蹦了出来。拍片计划如下：摄影机记录下以施明德作后台的演员拔下立委邱毅的假发、男主角在总统府前自焚、开车直撞总统府等的过程，让观众误以为这些事没经过设计，看会引发怎样的反应。在台湾惹怒民众的陈水扁有被人称作“鸭肉扁”，因为他的名字发音与台北一家位于武昌街与中华路转角处的“鸭肉扁”店名相通，民众如此称呼有可随吃随骂的意思，片名因之定为《情非得已之武昌街起义》，很烂俗又很革命。紧接，陈希圣答应做了制片人，由豆子公司的职员组成的新剧组正式成立，而拿到国片辅导金的批文（钮承泽的确以该计划在2005年拿到过350万的国片辅导金）之后，便是豆子和陈希圣四处找投资、演员等事宜。不料开拍即噩梦：男主角屈中恒一听拍摄计划并且需要自己融资，当即逃之夭夭；公司户头空空……豆子为了找到投资好让影片如期拍摄，做了诸多令他回想起便懊悔不已的事，过程中台湾电影业不景气导致的电影人的尴尬求生一览无遗。而与某女演员“车震”一事被媒体广播后，他与宁宁（张钧宁）本身存有问题的夫妻关系更是几乎崩溃，加上无法释怀多年前发生的一件与母亲有关的往事，他的人生似乎在一瞬间步入万劫不复之境。

1942年，生活在斯德哥尔摩的瑞典籍美国石油商人埃里克?埃里克森突然发现自己上了美国的纳粹合作者黑名单，急于辨白。而这一切是盟军情报机关的安排，意在逼迫埃里克成为间谍，因为他可以方便地进出德国。无奈的埃里克只得就范，他开始公开表现亲近纳粹，甚至不惜伤害最亲密的犹太人朋友坎普尔。朋友和亲人们都疏远了他，但只有坎普尔暗中相信埃里克这样做必有难言的原因。很快，埃里克就和德国人拉上了关系，并将德国石油业巨头格哈德?奥伦道夫爵士、石油商人奥托?豪兹拉下水，组成一个间谍小组，他的代号为“莱德”。同时，埃里克与笃信宗教的德国地下抵抗组织成员玛丽亚娜取得联络，乔装成情人幽会，骗过监视的盖世太保，不断将她提供的情报记忆下来后带回瑞典。埃里克与玛丽亚娜为了事业均是家庭不幸，两个人倾心相恋。埃里克虽是谍海新兵，但他沉着坚毅，多次避过危险。在奥伦道夫的努力下，埃里克获准在瑞典为德国“建设”炼油厂，于是得到了参观德国石油工厂的机会，一次，埃里克与奥伦道夫目睹纳粹绞死罢工工人的场面，被深深触动，开始由被迫工作转向自觉行动。他们的情报使盟军得以准确轰炸，令德国损失惨重。一段时间后，奥托因病去世，由于密信可能泄露，盟军情报机关决定停止埃里克小组的活动。但埃里克惦念玛丽亚娜，同时也为了取回至关重要的纳粹航空燃料生产情报，他毅然再次前往德国。埃里克一到柏林就被关进盖世太保监狱，并亲眼看到因身份暴露被捕的玛丽亚娜殉难。但他强忍悲痛，咬定自己只是玛丽亚娜的情人，盖世太保没有证据只好放人。埃里克从格哈德处拿到情报，又前往汉堡销毁奥托的密信，不料被跟随的盖世太保察觉。埃里克机智逃脱，并与汉堡的盟国谍报网取得联系，在地下组织和丹麦百姓的帮助下，埃里克越过边境，经哥本哈根渡过海峡，安全返回瑞典。

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