*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.

青年丁鹏（尔冬升 饰）出身低微，习得祖传“天外流星”剑法后挑战各路武林高手，欲扬名立万以光宗耀祖，不料武当掌门柳若松（王戎 饰）令妻子可笑（林建明 饰）施计陷害，使丁鹏失却剑谱，名誉扫地。丁鹏万念俱灰寻至荒郊了却残生，却被自称“狐鬼”的女子青青（汪明荃 饰）拦下，二人自此在世外桃源般的人鬼边界习练武功，并结为伉俪。一年后，丁鹏掌握了圆月弯刀刀法已天下无敌，不顾青青阻拦执意出山复仇。二人以其人之道还治其人之身让柳若松身败名裂。丁鹏踌躇满志远赴神剑山庄挑战三少爷谢晓峰（岳华 饰），三少爷一番开导未能让丁鹏开悟，反而抛弃青青入赘南宫世家。连番仇杀与青青的真实身份不久令丁鹏醒悟江湖的真相。

《红磨坊》《了不起的盖茨比》殿堂级导演巴兹·鲁赫曼掌舵，《好莱坞往事》新一代男神奥斯汀·巴特勒，联同奥斯卡影帝汤姆·汉克斯，将已故摇滚传奇天王“猫王”埃尔维斯·普雷斯利（Elvis Presley）的一生，震撼而感动地重现大银幕。籍籍无名乡村男孩，摇身一变成为叱咤风云的摇滚之王，猫王精彩一生，由他站上舞台那刻展开。猫王被经理人Tom Parker上校（汤姆·汉克斯 饰）发崛，助他走上国际巨星之路，但前所未有的名与利，加上社会与文化变迁，令猫王一度迷失自我，二人在20多年之间发展出一段充满矛盾的复杂关系。这段华丽星途里，猫王也遇上了影响他最深的女人Priscilla Presley（奥利维亚·德容格 饰）。多首经典金曲伴着慑人舞姿，歌迷影迷无不着迷。

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