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2017年7月。在排名战中，前崎学九段（安田显）突然陷入了思考停止的状态。无法集中于盘面，脑海中萦绕着死亡的印象。那时象棋界遇到了丑闻。在象棋联盟担任宣传的前崎忙于应对，还担任了电影的监修。在这期间，他每天都奔赴盘面，过着没有休息的日子，患上了抑郁症。前崎在精神科医生的哥哥章（高桥克实）推荐的医院住院。负责医生下令长期休养和当前禁止下棋。将棋极度集中力，只不过是治疗的障碍。身为围棋专业棋手的妻子·茧（内田有纪饰），相信自己能作为同一个赌徒回归，与女儿·春香（南沙良饰）一起，拼命支持着前崎。壮烈的病魔斗争之后，精神恢复了的前崎出院了。另一方面，茧也兼做前崎的康复训练，准备开设象棋围棋教室。开放之日，前崎也被邀请，举行了年轻棋手的对局仪式。看到那个的前崎受到了冲击。完全是异世界的游戏，因为抑郁症而完全无法理解将棋规则。

影院正在上映奇侠电影《风云公主大冒险》，鸣人（竹内顺子 配音）情不自禁大声喧哗，结果连同波佐助（杉山纪彰 配音）、小樱（中村千绘 配音）一同被赶出电影院。正当鸣人望着电影海报发呆时，竟发现风云公主骑着快马从身边呼啸而过，其身后另有数名骑马的追兵。三人未作迟疑，起身相助。结果从卡卡西口中得知，追兵的头目竟是此次任务的委托人，逃跑的风云公主则是影片的女主角富士风雪绘。原来《风云公主大冒险》的结局将在雪之国，可当雪绘听说这个名字后经落荒而逃，卡卡西他们的任务正是担当雪绘的护卫。似乎，在雪绘和雪之国之间，隐藏着不为人知的秘密……本片为《火影忍者》第一部剧场版动画。

宋世杰（周星驰 饰）是一个清朝时期的著名大状，他出色的口才及能力让他敢于批评衙门的大官，也为很多人伸冤。就算他不满当时官场的腐败黑暗，但他还是收了不少贿赂，部分还是昧心钱，都报应在了自己的儿子上，十多个儿子都养不大。妻子（梅艳芳 饰）为了腹中的孩子，断然要求他就此封笔，不可再做大状。虽然宋世杰极其不愿意，还是答应了妻子的要求。妻子遇到了满肚冤情的寡妇（吴嘉丽 饰），处于对女人的同情，她要求丈夫宋世杰为这名寡妇打官司，因此宋世杰又被迫重出江湖。在为寡妇伸冤的过程中，他再次看到了官场的黑暗，还差点抄家、送命……

*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.