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22 May 1998 (USA) morePlot:
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer... more | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Director, Producer, Co-Scriptwriter, Art Director, Star, Cinematographer, Editor Tsukamoto must be an amazing guy. moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Kaori Fujii | ... | Hizuru | |
| Shinya Tsukamoto | ... | Tsuda Yoshiharu | |
| Kôji Tsukamoto | ... | Kojima Takuji | |
| Naomasa Musaka | ... | Haze | |
| Naoto Takenaka | ... | Ohizumi | |
| Koichi Wajima | ... | Shirota | |
| Tomorowo Taguchi | ... | Tattoo master | |
| Nobu Kanaoka | ... | Nurse | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Kiichi Mutô | |||
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87 min | Argentina:87 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)Country:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Italy:VM14 (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-16 | Japan:R | South Korea:18 | UK:18 | Argentina:18Fun Stuff
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[Tsuda has just been beaten nearly to death]Tsuda: At least I don't have any problems staying awake anymore.
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I've seen Tsukamoto's Tetsuo films but here he has found a way to be almost as outre but infinitely more accessible and coherent. The film is about 3 people (two men and a woman caught in a triangle) whose lives suddenly become charged with transformative psychosexual and psychoviolent energies revolving around the world of Japanese boxing (but it is nothing like a 'fight' film). Actor/Editor/Cinematographer/Director Tsukamoto has found a way to give a high impact, extremely rhythmic (in both time and space) look and feel to his ideas that is very original and striking. The spatial rhythm of the lead characters boring ordinary 'day' life passed in high rise apartment complexes and the incredibly kinetic temporal rhythm of his alternate 'night' life provides a terrific cinematic contrast of these two worlds. The film is rather short and gains immensely thereby in both concentration and focus. I, too, thought about Raging Bull at times but probably Tsukamoto is more akin to David Cronenberg (the new flesh) in his concerns, not his approach, than Scorsese. It may not be for the squeamish, but it is strong, brilliant film making which you should definitely try.