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The Complete Japanese Showa Songbook
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!
Karaoke Terror
2003 ‘昭和歌謡大全集’ Directed by Tetsuo Shinohara
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Shôwa kayô daizenshû
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Absolutely bonkers! There’s so much going on here but the vibes are weirdly chill despite the death & destruction everywhere. The cast is so good, and some of the musical numbers are absolutely batshit, but it’s violent too. Genuinely not sure how to describe it other than nuts!
The group of mature ladies juxtaposed with the gang of young delinquents all with the same goal of killing each other is interesting. The boys are so cocksure & impulsive whilst the women stalk their prey & plan their movements. The funny thing is that neither way works better! They’re all kind of ridiculous.
Ryûhei Matsuda plays stoic as ever & Masanobu Andô maintains his BATTLE ROYALE credentials, but it’s the women who really impress! Kayoko…
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An eye for an eye makes
the World go... HOLY SHIT!Sometimes the strangest hobbies glue people together from the most different parts of society and gives them a togetherness that can glance over a lot of differences. A friendship is build and nobody could ever come between and each time somebody tries to weaken the connection, it only gets stronger.
One of my most anticipated Movies from this year's Horror Challenge and it didn't disappoint. This movie escalated slowly but steadily into a total killing frenzy. And those Musical Numbers truly were something special. Very Japanese!
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6 countries (Japan; 4/6☐)
8 decades (''00s; 9/8☑)
4 films from 1981(4/4☑)
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Absurdist black comedy that takes a stab at generational and sex warfare. Is not an "extreme asia" film so don't watch it expecting wall to wall gore.
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Such minuscule/disappointing/strange differences from the book because I assume the director didn’t think I would actually be reading it while watching to compare but I WAS. Not even going to allow myself to daydream about a world where this was directed by Sono…
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Based on Ryu Murakami's novel Popular Hits of the Showa Era, which I mightily enjoyed.
It's a shame this wasn't adapted a little later, by a director with a firmer grasp of satire and a more compelling visual style (Sion Sono, I'm looking at you).
As it stands, I suspect it's a bit of a garbled mess to anyone not familiar with the book, and unfortunately it was shot in the dark days of digital video, so it's something of an eyesore now.
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Two groups of karaoke singers take on 1950s J-Pop while they kill each other in an escalating sequence of revenge.
One group is six 20-something guys and the other is a group of 6 middle-aged women. It all starts when onevof the guys makes an sexually assaultive pass at a woman, gets rejected, and kills her. Then they kill each other.
This is almost two hours when it should have been under 90 minutes. There's a lot of "story" in between the karaoke numbers and killings. But, the last act is phenomenal.
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Also der war ja mal total bekloppt. Aber kein Wunder, denn kein anderer als Ryu Murakami(u.a. „Audition“) hat die Story geschrieben.
Zwischen einigen Karaoke-Einlagen wird hier also munter drauflos gemordet und zwar von Minute zu Minute immer bescheuerter. Das ist ganz unterhaltsam, ist aber mindestens 20 Minuten zu lang geraten. -
5 middle aged women wage war against a group of young men that murdered one of their friends, a dark comedy that pokes fun at the progression of ideology in Japan.
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Slice of life with a slice of murder.
Worth it for the deadpan and progressively more absurd weapons of choice but kinda boring and flat inbetween.
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