恋战千年

在祥和的目光峡中，“寻仇客"的出现，将客栈的老板娘红柳与她的儿子沙棘的生活搅乱了，但客栈内欢声笑语般的生活，使“寻仇客"从强烈的复仇欲望中分裂出来，使他不断在这种矛盾的境地中挣扎。严寒的冬天将他们的距离拉近，开始互相依赖之际，却惊觉他毕生寻找的仇人竟是……

饱受癌症折磨，“竖锯”约翰·克莱默（Tobin Bell 饰）油尽灯灭。然而他所创造的“拼图杀人案”却并未就此停止，反而愈演愈烈。警官马克·霍夫曼（Costas Mandylor 饰）曾假借“竖锯”之名向残害他家人的凶手复仇，但他很快成为约翰的猎物。经过一波三折，霍夫曼成为“拼图杀人案”的接班人，只是约翰警世救人的初衷被彻底抛却，取而代之的无休止的血腥杀戮。一场毫无胜算的五人逃生游戏在霍夫曼德主持下展开。另一方面，霍夫曼千方百计隐瞒身份，而警官皮特·斯特拉姆（Scott Patterson 饰）却对其产生怀疑。斯特拉姆千方百计寻找证据，却不曾想已走入霍夫曼布下的残酷迷局……

本动画片曾荣获1943年奥斯卡最佳动画片奖，并在2006年法国安锡（Annecy）国际动画电影节上被评为“动画的世纪?100部作品”第87名。唐老鸭做了一个噩梦，梦中他成了纳粹统治下的一名奴隶。每天不但要起早贪黑地拼命干活，还要随时听命于各种口号、不停地对遍地都是的希特勒的照片敬礼，然而它的待遇，实在差到不能再差，干活时，动不动就会被监工拳打脚踢，吃的面包干到难以下咽。一天，它在流水线加工大大小小的子弹时，精神逐渐失常，最终爆发。

*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.