Masterpiece? Yeah, I think so. That seems to fit pretty good. Miike has pretty much delivered the ultimate yakuza movie here and so much better than that. I think the guys at Hi-Ho magazine have said it best "More insane than Ichi the Killer, crazier than Dead or Alive, a greater love story than City of Lost Souls, and more agonizing than the ending of Audition." Over the top emotionally and tonally bone dry at the same time, Fukasaku’s intense single-minded fury from the original is reconstructed to now contain nuance, detail, and motivation. We never really figured out why Watari Tetsuya was such a nutzoid in the original, and that sense of impenetrable mystery is what makes the 1976 version still so compelling. Here, the main character is as you’d expect him to be — a rampaging raping, murdering, drug addict — but it is explicit that he’s still a active living human being rather than the hypocrites and non-entities that populate the frame around him. Fukasaku’s film articulated the existential hopelessness of the post-war generation, and how it was compounded by the failure of "revolution." Shin Jingi no Hakaba borrows Fukasaku’s structure, but updates the setting to 80s-90s Japan, and, via. shock therapy, examines how a faltering economy, political scandal, and national trauma have helped to turn the clock dangerously back. Goro Kishitani plays his part with the expected sullen intensity, but also with the monkey-like exuberance of someone constantly in search of tactile ecstasy. Kishitani is repulsive and mesmerizing, a smacked-out Alexander de Large with a period-perfect "punch perm" hairstyle. Miike has cameo as a would-be assassin at a night club. He delivers an intense, exhausting 133 mins. Word is he’s now going to take a break and prepare for Zatoichi. Maybe we should too.
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RE: critique du remake "le cimetiere de la morale"
