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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0738329030025 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Kino International Languages: Manufacturer: Kino International MPN: D03002D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino International Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 08, 2003 Running Time: 108 minutes Studio: Kino International Theatrical Release Date: 1998 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Tarantino Style Comedic Crime ThrillerSamehada is on the run from the Yakuza. He apparently stole 100 million yen from them and has no intention of giving it back willingly. While taking a brief time out to have his way with two women, they catch up with him. He winds up fleeing the scene wearing practically nothing. Meanwhile, there's Toshiko, who works at a hotel with a really creepy boss that has the hots for her. She decides to run away. She doesn't get far though as she sees a half naked man run past her on the road...only to crash ... Read More Rating: - Comic book perfection"Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl" is a manga/comic book adaptation that hits the ground running, and well.....just keeps on running. In fact, the hero (S S Man) and the heroine (P H Girl) are literally running from the yakuza and terrible/tedious job w/ perverted, personal life encroaching manager, respectively. This film is filled to the brim with action, hilarious dialogue, and characters straight out of comic book land. Not since "Sin City", has there ever been so many comic book-perfect characters ... Read More Rating:  - A Quirky Romantic Yakuza Film: Comic Elements Backfire "Shark Skin Man And Peach Hip Girl," [wow what a title} by Director Katsuhito Ishii is a below average, to average film at best. I remember watching this film years ago and not particularly thinking it was all that great. Upon my latest viewing, it has not aged very well. Also, I do realize that the film itself is based on the comic series by Minetaro Mochizuki, and therefore is not supposed to be taken too seriously. And as you watch the film, you can see that many of these comic elements are thrown into the ... Read More Rating:  - Tarentino-esque fun.Okay, I admit this has a lot of elements similar to Pulp Fiction (quirky, disturbed hitmen, a non-linear ending where a character is brought back to life, incidental scenes of thugs talking about funny random things, etc.), but a lot of it works (when the gay hitman and the Tadanobu Asano character meet in the bathroom, it's borderline genius comedy). Unfortunately, the pieces don't come together in any satisfying way at the end. Check out the very different but much superior Cha no Aji (The Taste of Tea) for ... Read More Rating: - Oh how this movie rocks!The movie opens as a young worker Toshiko (played wonderfully by Shie Kohinata) is being urged by a coworker to follow his example and finally quit her job at the stale, low-rent hotel managed by Toshiko's uncle Sonezaki. When Toshiko finds out that her uncle has "invested" all the money in her savings into the hotel, she decides that this is the breaking point. Samehada (Tadanobu Asano; Ichi The Killer) has stolen some serious cash from his former yakuza bosses and, after being tracked to a woodland cabin, (where ... Read More |
