Survive Style 5+ (2004)

Five bizarre stories, with no apparently connections, get intertwined resulting in a surreal situation.

Director:

Gen Sekiguchi

Writer:

Taku Tada

Stars:

Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Kyôko Koizumi

3 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tadanobu Asano	...	Aman
Reika Hashimoto	...	Mimi - Ishigaki'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	...	Katagiri - Interpreter (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

Storyline

A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkable inane idea after another; a British hitman who only wants to know everyone's function in life; and an unfortunate office worker and father whose brain is left scrambled after a stage hypnotist is murdered in mid-performance. Starting off as unrelated plot lines, they intertwine with each other as they continue on their respective ways.

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Plot Keywords:

hitman | grave | homophobia | station wagon | burglar | 

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Genres:

Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [jp]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese English

Release Date:

19 April 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Survive Style

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tohokushinsha Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Kazama - Advertising Company President: [the President takes a phone call from his wife during a board meeting] Yeah. Yeah.
Kazama - Advertising Company President: [He looks shocked] What?
Kazama - Advertising Company President: The bathroom light is out?

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Connections

References The Shining (1980)

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Soundtracks

"I Will Survive"
Cake

User Reviews

Uebercool and surreal Japanese pop culture overdose.

Survive Style 5+ is without a doubt one of the most bizarre, beautiful , original and over the top films I have seen in the past few years. I couldn't help but smile throughout the entire movie. It's simply unlike anything you have ever seen before. Mindblowing decors, surreal dialog, commercial breaks, hit men & hypnotists. It really is an amazing collection of scenes that are edited and interwoven in a unique way. The oil-painting-like colors and completely insane soundtrack alone are worth it. Add some of the "coolest" actors: Tadanobu Asano and Vinnie Jones and you have yourself one of the most original and entertaining movies coming out of the far east in a long long time.