Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)
3.4 of 5 from 47 ratings
1h 48min
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- Synopsis:
An outrageous contemporary Japenese genre-mongrel, 'Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl' combines sentimental Yakuza gangster machismo with the fatalistic romance of the road movie and the dead-pan irreverence of vanguard Asian action cinema. Director Katsuhito Ishii pulls out all the stops in re-imagining Minetaro Mochizuki's popular Manga comic book for the screen, creating an avalanche of giddily graphic violence and a melee of offbeat gun-crazy characters. Distracted by the sight of a handsome, nearly naked man sprinting across a winding mountain road, Toshiko inadvertently interrupts a mob execution by crashing her car into a limo full of eccentric assassins. Fresh from a frenzied menage a trois, Belmondo-cool Samehada seduces Toshiko into a life or death race with an army of mob killers joined by a moon-walking, love-struck amateur hit-main dispatched by Toshiko's depraved uncle. From the Yakuza assassins' color-coordinated guns to the shadow-dappled forests in which the film is set, Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl bursts with an urgently hypnotic collision of wild styles and flights of visual imagination. - Actors:
- Tadanobu Asano, Ittoku Kishibe, Sie Kohinata, Kimie Shingyôji, Susumu Terajima, Shingo Tsurumi, Daigaku Sekine, Kô Takasugi, Shingoro Yamada, Hitoshi Kiyokawa, Yôji Tanaka, Keisuke Horibe, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Kanji Tsuda, Yôhachi Shimada, Tatsuya Gashûin, Hisaji Yamano, Satoko Abe, Yuka Kinoshita, Hajime Yamaoka
- Directors:
- Katsuhito Ishii
- Writers:
- Katsuhito Ishii, Minetaro Mochizuki
- Aka:
- Samehada otoko to momojiri onna
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
