死亡森林

白天的Karen（梁慧嘉 饰）是某电视频道可有可无的节目主持，晚上她则是一名“蒲精”，常在夜店饮至烂醉到天明。阿文（方力申 饰）是个一个公司的小职员，平时没事就和朋友喝喝酒踢踢球，毫不起眼。一次偶然机会，使得阿文喜欢上了Karen，她欣意接受阿文的约会，与他出双入对。他以为爱情来了，她却视阿文为一名“观音兵”，呼之则来，挥之则去，并说只当他是好朋友，而不是爱情。阿文把自己封闭了起来，后来Karen工作上不顺，感情上也是被抛来扔去的，后来她又接近阿文，一起看电影泡吧看阿文踢球，从不迟到，但是阿文已经不同于以往了，渴望爱情的他们为什么无法在一起呢？

少女小舞最難忘的生日禮物，是一張黑道兄弟的刺青拼圖。爸爸是冷酷的黑道兄弟，她從來不叫爸爸，她都叫他溪哥....

富家子弟学津（刘德华 饰）自命不凡，多次恋爱后均迅速对对方无感觉，经常在订婚分手。这次，学津看上了来自上海的女服务生文青（瞿颖 饰），文青大方得体，和学津以及他的家人朋友都很聊得来。于是，学津准备与文青一起乘豪华邮轮作远洋旅游，并在船上举行盛大的订婚仪式。学津有所不知的是，文青的大方得体、学识广博其实是她每晚都努力准备好次日的聊天话题的结果，而文青也开始逐渐厌恶这种生活，她感到十分疲累。两人上船后，文青邂逅了服务生乐文（黄磊 饰）；而学津则在和一个叫红叶（石田光 饰）的女生针锋相对后，学津发现自己疯狂的爱上了对方。两人能否在船上找到属于自己的梦幻爱情？

*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.