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Taku Tada (writer)
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A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative...
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Absurdity -- Neo-Tokyo Style
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tadanobu Asano | ... | Aman |
| Reika Hashimoto | ... | Aman's wife |
| Kyôko Koizumi | ... | Yoko, Commercial Executive |
| Hiroshi Abe | ... | Aoyama, the Hypnotist |
| Ittoku Kishibe | ... | Tatsuya Kobayashi |
| Yumi Asô | ... | Misa, Kobayashi's wife |
| Kanji Tsuda | ... | Tsuda - Burglar |
| Yoshiyuki Morishita | ... | Morishita - Burglar |
| Jai West | ... | J - Burglar |
| YosiYosi Arakawa | ... | Killer's translator (as Yoshiyoshi Arakawa) |
 | Vinnie Jones | ... | Hired Killer |
 | Sonny Chiba | ... | Kazama - Advertising Company President (as Shinichi Chiba) |
| Shihori Kanjiya | ... | Kaho Kobayashi |
| Tomokazu Miura | ... | Doctor Yamauchi |
| Ryûnosuke Kamiki | ... | Seiichi Kobayashi |
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Japan:120 min | Germany:120 min
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References The Shining (1980)
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I Will Survive
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Some people out there in may imagine the Japanese of Tokyo to be a stoic, colorless like the Vulcans. To some extent, that is how they really are. The buildings are gray, and if it's overcast, everything kind of blends together into a formalized drone. There is more paperwork added each day, another speech to sleep through, and the shuffle begins anew. Add the business formalities, and society can get very stiff over there.
That is one side of Japan.
SURVIVE STYLE 5 is the other side. Somewhere buried beneath the hard samurai exterior, the Japanese are the silliest, flashiest people on the face of the earth. Just watch the game shows on TV to see what I mean. It takes the slightest spark to transform a crowd of adults into a crowd of Pokemon monsters. Add this side of Japan, and every conversation at the workplace has a Comic Book BANG! POW! and HORRA!
The movie features five story lines (1) A hip to be square family of four (2) A girl that won't stay buried (3) An assassin on a hit job (4) A hypnotist (5) A traveling band of fools in a van. Here's a puzzle for you -- what is the common element that connects these 5 story lines? Beats me. Maybe it's the STYLE.
SURVIVE STYLE 5 is like a multi-colored salad falling to the kitchen floor in slow motion. Everyone stands agape as the orange leaves scatter like purple rain. Most memorable are the vivid colors and extreme silliness. Take for example the absurd scene where a typical nuclear family is rocking out in the car on their way to a hypnosis show. All four are bobbing their heads to punk rock and shouting American profanities in unison.
A cohesive story would have propelled this movie into greatness. But because it's so scatterbrained, it can safely be filed in the "two-hour music video" drawer. You might want to display it at the entrance to your home on special occasions -- like an Andy Warhol photograph. It can serve as a reminder of how absurd the world can get. "Yes, the world did have a story to tell once upon a time. It made absolutely no sense, but it had such a beautiful Christmas Tree!"
If SURVIVE STYLE 5 is your cup of tea, I recommend Taste of Tea, released in 2004 starring Tadanobu Asano.
JY
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