Shinjuku Mad (1970) [Re-UP]

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Date: May 12, 2015

Shinjuku Mad (1970)
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 | 01:06:10 | 4,31 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama | Japan

Director: Koji Wakamatsu
Stars: Yuko Ejima, Makiko Harada, Akiko Hirooka

A man comes to Tokyo from the countryside looking for his son's killer. He discovers the slow pace of police investigations and willing to understand the reasons of his son's death slowly enters in the deep underground of the city and encounters its counterculture symbols. Finally he finds Shinjuku Mad the man that he's been told has killed his son. He's the leader of a self-called rivolutionary gang and explains to the man that his son was a rat and they had to remove all the possible obstacles on the road to revolution. But in the final verbal showdown the gang's reasons appear as inconsistent, their will to make a revolution is weak and they don't even know what to revolt.

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Wakamatsu Koji made underground movies in the late ’60s and early ’70s. He was working within the pink genre, which meant they were essentially pornos, but as long as there was the requisite simulated sex scene every 20 minutes nobody cared what else he showed. And what he showed was usually violence.

In films like Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) and Ecstasy of the Angels (1972), Wakamatsu explored the nexus of sex and violence, with the films taking place in claustrophobic, single-room apartments. He was also interested in young people, student activism and the coming revolution, when the old ways would be thrown out in favor of a more egalitarian society.


Shinjuku Mad was released in 1970, a year after student activism reached its peak with the shutting down of college campuses in Tokyo and then fizzled out. Although his previous films were critical of young people, his sympathies still lay with them. However, Shinjuku Mad seems to be going another direction.

The father of a slain young man comes to Tokyo to find the killer, known as Shinjuku Mad. The police are no help so he sets out on his own, poking around in underground coffee bars and crash pads in Shinjuku, then ground zero for the Japanese counter cultural movement. He’s straight-laced and square but he’s not insensitive to young people. In fact, he likens them to the architects of the Meiji Restoration, the men who helped bring Japan out of its feudal age.


It’s clear Wakamatsu and his usual screenwriter, Adachi Masao, have more respect for the honest working man of Japan here than the “revolutionary,” who talks a lot but never does anything except squabble with others. Even more than the fact that Shinjuku Mad feels like a real movie, complete with coherent plot and resolution, it’s this aspect that surprised me the most. That a revolutionary filmmaker should take the position of the conservative working class says a lot about how he felt about the state of the revolution.


Wakamatsu and Adachi were definitely on to something. A few years after this, the Japanese Red Army, of which Adachi was a former member, would self-destruct in a one-room cabin in the woods, killing 14 of its own members. Wakamatsu recently turned these events into a film, United Red Army (2007), which is fitting because the event itself seems to have come straight out of one of his films.
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With a sensationally violent and squelchy opening that sets up the plot of a father searching for his child’s murderer through the Shinjuku underworld, Shinjuku Mad never lets up its relentless assault as the blood flies, the bodies pile and the suffocating alienation multiplies like H1N1 in a school playground, all while Japanese '70s space rock band Food Brain provides harrowing cuts of fuzzy skronk on the soundtrack. The film was embraced by college students, artists and intellectuals upon its release, for its abrasive style and its honest countercultural insight (hippies and bikers are to be equally mistrusted!) Scripted by Wakamatsu’s partner in crime and leftist political radical, Masao Adachi, this film is purportedly one of Wakamatsu’s personal favorites for its "…vicarious portrait of Swinging Shinjuku in its vibrant heyday, making full use of local landmarks…" One of six(!) films Wakamatsu released in 1970.
Nicholas Rucka

DVD Features:
- Wakamatsu Interview
- Photo Gallery

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