Hiroshi Abe, Ittoku Kishibe, Kyôko Koizumi

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Directed by: Gen Sekiguchi

Release Date: January 1, 2004

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  • February 28, 2009
    One of strangest, most profound, silly, touching, surreal, lovable, funny and oddly soothing films I've ever seen. It will be hard to knock this out of my top 10. Just submit to the power of the film and finish it in one sitting. You never know where it's going to go, just kno...( read more)w you'll be glad when you do.
  • February 20, 2007
    I guess a movie like SS5+ bases it's whole appeal on how unpredictable it can be, that is not a bad thing per se, but not only a film needs to have something more than just that, there certainly exist levels of creativiy in running a experiment like that.

    SS5+ attempts to be thi...( read more)s all fun demential collection of gags, all trown in different directions, hoping something will stick. Some do: your average japanese salary man thinking he's a bird after being hipnotized, Tadanobu Asano killing, and eventually facing the resurrected body of his psycho wife again and again. But there are others that not only doesn't work, it feel like just half baked lazy ideas the director trow in, like a woman working on promotional ads that thinks she is brighter and funnier than she really is, or 3 goofy house robbers that have a "brokeback mountain" thing going on betwen two of them.

    I'm very much on favor of films that try to break conventional movie-making rules in favor in something unique, as long as they do know what they're doing. There are plenty of examples of films that have managed to succed in doing that (Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill, Takashi Miike's Gozu, Thai flick Tears of the Black Tiger) SS5+ might had sound great on paper, but on screen it feels way too missmatched to actually consider it a full film and not just a collection of one-trick-pony gags. Yeah, i know what you're thinking "how can a film with Vinnie Jones, Tadanobu Asano and Sonny Chiba fails to be rad and actually become very dull?" Believe me, i was asking the same thing to myself.
  • September 6, 2006
    A stunningly insane, hyperactive Japanese classic. Interlocking stories that mix the surreal with the real, create a rather unique film experience. A man as a bird adds superb comedy, as does a man who cannot kill his wife. Vinnie Jones steals the show as an intimidating and slig...( read more)htly 'off' hitman. Overall may be too weird for some, but at times it is touching and the soundtrack is top notch.
  • January 15, 2008
    Pretty funny and some nice visual effects. A little too weird for my taste though.
  • July 3, 2007
    Wildly original, but really weird. Some very cool set designs and good music cues.
  • October 24, 2009
    [SPOILER WARNING] People have called this movie Pulp Fiction on crack and rightly so. I don't remember why I got this but I'm glad I did. It's a hilarious collision of five stories. A hitman, who wants to know the purpose of things and people in life and his translator, going abo...( read more)ut their business. A suburban family of four in which the father is hypnotized into thinking that he's a bird and is trying to learn how to fly. A man who kills his wife and who fails to keep her dead over and over again. A hypnotist and a commercial executive. A trio of jobless guys wasting time burglarizing houses. [/SPOILERS]

    Not once did I feel like it was dragging on because even the lull parts are used very effectively to build up anticipation. The colors are vivid and varies, just like the movie. The acting was superb. Some of the facial expressions were just priceless. It's a keeper and it definitely has the potential to be a cult classic.
  • September 26, 2009
    Difficult to describe... somethin' in between crazy, funny, bizarre, lovely and crazy again.
  • September 12, 2009
    Flamboyance for flamboyance's sake. Style over substance but still really funny and hard not to like. Some silly bits but each interconnected story is given its due. Almost a full-length version of a zany commercial.
  • July 18, 2009
    I didn't get it at all but it was somehow entertaining.
  • July 18, 2009
    It was so weird, and almost nonsensical but still highly entertaining! I don't even know how that's possible...

    And it also makes you ponder, What is your function in life?

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