典型的早期日式朋克电影，黑白影像+连续而晃动的手提摄影+朋克乐，石井当年就是以此片出道的。。。This extremely hectic and nearly headache-inducing short by the Japanese punk demigod Sogo Ishii is definitely one of the craziest and most experimental art-house movies I ever had the pleasure of seeing on a big screen (during a special revolving on the director).After the two hugely different but already influential long-feature films "Panic High School" and "Crazy Thunder Road", Ishii finally made the punk-short he clearly dreamed of making ever since the beginning. "Shuffle" is based on comic strip and doesn't really have a story to tell. The camera just very creatively follows a man as he's running out of his apartment and down the streets. He's running from the cops, because he murdered his girlfriend, but he's also running towards the pimp who stole her from him, for vengeance. 30 minutes of playtime only to depict a man running down some streets seems long, but Ishii somehow manages to make it fascinating by presenting a non-stop series of imaginative camera tricks, lighting techniques and unique sound-editing. The visuals are groundbreaking and far ahead of their time. The colors continuously fade out and back in, the camera is put in every possible perspective there is and the music is really loud and stimulating. "Shuffle" often looks like an exercise for Ishii's next big project "Burst City" and it definitely was a great source of influence for future Asian filmmakers like Takashi Miike and Shinya Tsukamoto. You can't really call it a great film, because there are almost no dialogs or character drawings, but it surely guarantees half a hour of adrenalin-rushing spectacle.

少女椿（松井良彦 配音）的母亲死于重病，没有亲戚愿意收留这个可怜的孩子，于是，椿跟随着卖花时结识的戴帽子的绅士来到了名为“赤猫座”的马戏团中，在这座破败荒芜的马戏团里进行表演的，都是一些或是残疾或是古怪的“异人”们，在这里，椿悲惨的遭到了他们的凌辱，沦为众人的奴隶，过着苦不堪言的生活。马戏团里新来了一位能够将自己塞进狭窄玻璃瓶的侏儒魔术师，他的表演大受欢迎，很快就令快要倒闭的马戏团赚得盆满钵满，成为了老板眼中的聚宝盆。与此同时，椿和魔术师之间也产生了懵懂的感情，然而，就在两人决定双宿双飞之时，魔术师却遇见了意外一命呜呼。

在一次全副武装的运钞车劫案中，梅斯先生（杰森·斯坦森 饰）的儿子作为案发目击者被劫匪杀害。怒火中烧的梅斯为报丧子之仇，化身H卧底成为运钞车安保，试图找出杀害他儿子的劫匪以及与劫匪暗中勾结的安保公司内鬼。

In this Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Sondheim, several fairy tale characters learn the hard way that the 'Happily Ever After' they sought isn't necessarily so happy after all.