Survive Style 5+
A few weeks ago I finally got my hands on Survive Style 5+. This is a beautiful film. The art design in it is flat out gorgeous and it's wonderfully bizarre withal. It's directed by first-timer Gen Sekiguchi who had only directed music videos before this film and to a large extent you can tell. His use of vibrant color and his flair for style permeate throughout the entire film. It's a darkly comedic film with a frenetic opening pace.
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In the film, Tadanobu Asano plays a man who kills and buries his wife, only to find her alive when he returns home, over and over again. A salaryman becomes hypnotized to think he is a bird, by a hypnotist that moments later is brutally assasinated by a hit man played by Vinnie Jones. Three layabout burglars roam subruban Tokyo and confront homoerotic lust for one another. And an edvertising exec attempts to sell commercials far more perverse than any on TV.
