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*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.

经过在法国巴黎一年的努力打拼，千秋真一（玉木宏 饰）渐渐成长为备受瞩目的指挥家，野田惠在音乐学院的学业也在有条不紊地进行中。而就在此春风得意的时刻，艾莉莎（吉瀬美智子 饰）命令千秋去担任宫殿专用乐团Roux-marlet乐团的首席指挥。虽然该乐团声名显赫，但早已今非昔比，由于资金断链，人才相继流失，临时演奏家占多数且缺少练习的乐团，其窘况可想而知。种种困境让千秋备感困扰，为此他找来野田惠（上野树里 饰）加入练习，而碰巧来到巴黎的孙蕊（山田优 饰）也加入其中。糟糕的现状，一切似乎都要从头开始……本片根据二之宫知子的原著漫画改编。

故事从一节星象课开始，主人公乔班尼是出生在贫苦人家的少年，他有一个值得信赖的好友，叫做柯贝内鲁拉。孩子们盼望已久的星星节来临，乔班尼来到了远离城镇的气象轮山丘上，躺在草地上看着星空。然而身后的气象轮轴渐渐幻化成银河车站，等他反应过来时，他居然坐在一辆晃晃悠悠向前行驶的小列车上。这是一辆夜行轻便列车，他发现柯贝内鲁拉也在车上。他们乘坐着这列小火车，来到了如梦似幻的天上原野，看到迎风飘荡的芒草，还有美丽壮阔的银河……本片为日本CG大师加贺谷穰2006年的穹幕CG动画，改编自日本文学大师宫泽贤治的同名童话原作。

一直生活在台南的青年李士祥只身一人前往台北，只为了寻找失散多年的妹妹。在台北，李士祥结识了妹妹的旧相识落雷和老虎，在两人的帮助之下，李士祥正式开始了他的寻亲之旅。在穿梭在台北的大街小巷间的过程中，李士祥目睹了发生在这里的种种乱象以及多桩惨剧，令他认识到了生活的不易，而妹妹一直以来的毫无音信亦让李士祥开始感到灰心。老胡是一名退伍军人，退伍后，他同名叫王满娇的女人结了婚。王满娇是一个非常蛮横又霸道的女人，老胡在家里天天受她欺负。让老胡没有想到的是，某一日，王满娇竟然带着女儿服毒自杀了。巨大的打击让老胡的精神崩溃了。