Survive Style 5+
That isn’t engrish–that’s what director Gen Sekiguchi called this 2004 movie. And it stars Tadanobu Asano, Sonny Chiba and Vinnie Jones! The producers describe it like this: “A wacked-out surrealist comedy from the farthest reaches of the imagination, the film almost defies description, coming on like a fantastical version of Pulp Fiction if directed by Takashi Miike while tripping on acid.” This is what amazon.com had to say:
Survive Style 5+ is the kind of film that is rarely made because it is so out of the box that producers and financiers have no interest in taking a chance on it. It’s difficult, in fact, to even categorize this film into a genre. It contains dark comedy, but also elements found in action, horror, science fiction, and drama. In this bizarre film, five seemingly independent stories somehow come together: A man kills and buries his wife only to find her quite alive when he arrives home–over and over again; A salaryman, with a wife and two kids, sees a famous hypnotist only to be permanently turned into a man who thinks he’s a chicken; An advertising executive loses it and comes up with some of the most vulgar commercials ever seen; A gang of young criminals find out they have homosexual tendencies; An English assassin (played wonderfully by British soccer player Vinnie Jones) looks for new clients.
You can watch this with subtitles at Crunchyroll, or buy it at amazon.com (where the same customers also tended to buy Ichi the Killer and Oldboy) or probably rent it somewhere. In any case, I would say this is a must-see–I enjoyed it a lot! Here is a trailer from YouTube:
There is also a high quality version available on Veoh.com in two parts.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:07 amtotally wicked movie. The part where the whole family is sitting in the car and karaokeing to the lyrics. fuck fuck fuck fuck!!
December 18th, 2007 at 6:42 pmMore style than substance I’m afraid. I did not like this movie much.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:12 amI have to agree with claytonian; more style than substance. I thought it was an alright movie though, but was ultimately disappointed.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:53 pm