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解放前的旧上海滩，正处在一个罪恶横行、是非颠倒的黑暗年代。物价飞涨，黑帮、军阀、洋人横行霸道，饱受压迫和欺凌的百姓最希望正义降临。于是一群正义勇敢的年轻人挺身而出，用他们的智慧和信念驱散黑暗。因犯错被放长假的巡捕房探长钟朗（钟汉良 饰）正在酒楼闹事买醉，这时身为报社记者的妹妹钟慧（涂黎曼 饰）向他通报一则惊人的消息。南郊发现一具尸体，死者系被割喉而死，双手被用水手结反绑。听到消息，钟朗顿时清醒，原来三年前曾有一个“割喉魔”名震江湖，其作案手法与南郊案件如出一辙。当年钟朗正因为抓错凶手才让割喉魔逍遥法外，杀害更多人。今非昔比的“老虎探长”钟朗，在实习探员韩非（释小龙 饰）和医科大学女教授于胜男（齐芳 饰）等人的帮助下，重新展开了他的查案之旅……

一九五五年是一个什么都没有的年代。没有米、没有电视。鸡王(林瑞阳)从不带便当，只带一根汤匙，因为他把便当留给弟妹。他努力去教堂，是因为可从教堂获得物资来源。每当吃饭时，同学防他像防贼，但他都有办法把肚子填饱。甚至赢得同学的尊敬、友谊。

*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.

日本の地域創生を目指した番組作りの一環として制作された「農家のミカタ」。群馬県高崎市を舞台に、市役所の農林課に配属された主人公・進藤優弥が、日本の農業の“リアル”と“今”を知る中で成長していくさまが描かれる。農家の思いや地元野菜の魅力、日本の農業の持つ課題や可能性もドラマを通じて伝えていく。