02-03-2016, 12:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2016, 12:30 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Just when I was about to give up on psychotropic Japanese exploitation films, it's Sion Sono to the rescue, restoring my faith in this beloved genre.
Where to start: TT is a hip hop Japanese street gang film in an alternate Neo-Tokyo. As y'all know, I luv musicals, and while I'm not a huge hip hop fan, I've always thought that there was a great hip hop musical to be made. They should remake the Warriors as a hip hop musical. That's almost what TT is, only more insane. Who would have thought that it would be Japan to deliver the greatest hip hop musical so far. This is what Man with the Iron Fists should have been. The bulk of the dialog is in rap. The beats are fat. At first, I thought this was just a long glorified music vid, but it grew on me as something much more by the end. It's so Sono, it hurts.
Where it really hooked me were the long single-shot scenes - swirling camera work through extremely complex environments with the actors rapping out their lines to the beat. The cinematography alone is stand out. Some of the fight sequences are outstanding single-shot acrobatic action sequences.
But here are some of the bullet points in this remarkable DOOM flick, all of which are totally gratuitous presented here alphabetically: bad haircuts, bare boobs, bare buns, baseball bat fights, bikini babes, busty villains, cannibalism, cartoonish gangs, disco tanks, dwarf villain, gattling guns, gaudy neon, giant cusinart fan of death, graffiti, katana fights, lens flares, sequined handguns, sequined samurai helmets, saucy prostitutes, sauna penis envy, thigh-squeezing neck-breaks, villainous dildos, whip-wielding dominatrix...oh I could go on and on. Something that really amused me is that the good guys hang out in a diner called Pennys - written in Dennys style font. Thought of you, Greg, and our many hours in that notorious establishment.
Here's a taste, but it hardly captures this film:
Where to start: TT is a hip hop Japanese street gang film in an alternate Neo-Tokyo. As y'all know, I luv musicals, and while I'm not a huge hip hop fan, I've always thought that there was a great hip hop musical to be made. They should remake the Warriors as a hip hop musical. That's almost what TT is, only more insane. Who would have thought that it would be Japan to deliver the greatest hip hop musical so far. This is what Man with the Iron Fists should have been. The bulk of the dialog is in rap. The beats are fat. At first, I thought this was just a long glorified music vid, but it grew on me as something much more by the end. It's so Sono, it hurts.
Where it really hooked me were the long single-shot scenes - swirling camera work through extremely complex environments with the actors rapping out their lines to the beat. The cinematography alone is stand out. Some of the fight sequences are outstanding single-shot acrobatic action sequences.
But here are some of the bullet points in this remarkable DOOM flick, all of which are totally gratuitous presented here alphabetically: bad haircuts, bare boobs, bare buns, baseball bat fights, bikini babes, busty villains, cannibalism, cartoonish gangs, disco tanks, dwarf villain, gattling guns, gaudy neon, giant cusinart fan of death, graffiti, katana fights, lens flares, sequined handguns, sequined samurai helmets, saucy prostitutes, sauna penis envy, thigh-squeezing neck-breaks, villainous dildos, whip-wielding dominatrix...oh I could go on and on. Something that really amused me is that the good guys hang out in a diner called Pennys - written in Dennys style font. Thought of you, Greg, and our many hours in that notorious establishment.
Here's a taste, but it hardly captures this film:
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