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  • movie-Fried Dragon Fish； Mystery Train - [囌格影]

    2007-08-09

     

    Original title       Fried Dragon Fish
    Alternative title     Thomas Earwing's Arowana
    Director   Shunji IWAI
    Cast         Miyoko YOSHIMOTO

          Tadanobu ASANO

                  Hiroshi OGUCHI

    Running time    50 mins.

    About Shunji Iwai: 

    Director Shunji Iwai has an awful lot in common with his American counterpart Quentin Tarantino. Both directors exploded upon the scene with their theatrical debuts in the early 90s (Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs in 1992 and Iwai with Love Letter in 1995); both followed their first films up with even bolder, idiosyncratic works which defined a new era of 'modern' cinema and set the benchmark for the films of the 90s (Tarantino with Pulp Fiction in 1994; Iwai with Swallowtail Butterfly in 1996). Both courted the media as 'celebrity' filmmakers and by the time both directors followed up their masterpieces (with Jackie Brown and April Story directed respectively in 1998), their work was already beginning to look dated and past its sell-by date. Consequently both directors seem to have kept a rather low profile ever since. 

    About FDF:

    一個充滿90年代色彩的女主人公 園園的太陽鏡 卷卷的短髮 舊舊的仔褲 思想跳躍

    另一個穿棉布白襯衫  舒服的鞋 憂鬱的臉 修長的手指 確是殺手

    一起躺在禿禿的地板上 聼音樂 聼魚缸裏魚游泳的水聲 肆無忌憚聊天 萌發出了愛的味道

    但想愛不能愛

    他带着命运离开
    她带着命运继续
    。。。 。。。

    Mystery Train

    Directed byJim Jarmusch
    Produced byJim Stark
    Written byJim Jarmusch
    StarringYouki Kudoh
    Screamin' Jay Hawkins
    Nicoletta Braschi
    Joe Strummer
    Steve Buscemi
    Music byJohn Lurie
    CinematographyRobbie Müller
    Editing byMelody London
    Distributed byMGM
    Release date(s)May 1989 (Cannes Film Festival)
    November 7, 1989 (USA)
    Running time113 min.
    LanguageEnglish
    Italian
    Japanese

    [edit] Plot

    The first story, "Far From Yokohama", features a teenage couple from Yokohama, Japan--Mitzuko and Jun--travelling across America. They have made an almost holy pilgrimage to Memphis. Mitzuko is obsessed with Elvis Presley, and even, in one scene "deduces" that Elvis was the basis for Madonna and the Statue Of Liberty. Their story follows their holiday, including an exhaustive trip to Sun Records and the film's sex scene. Their story also features a cameo by legend Rufus Thomas as an old man in a train station.

    The second story, "A Ghost", follows a stop-over with an Italian Widow (possibly Mafia), Luisa, escorting her husband's coffin back to Italy. Stuck in Memphis for the night (after being conned twice and stuck with armfuls of magazines), she is forced to share a room with Dee Dee, a young woman who talks constantly. When Dee Dee does finally shut up and get to sleep, Luisa still doesn't get any sleep, after a visit from Memphis' most famous export...Elvis Presley.

    In the final story, "Lost In Space", we get to meet Dee Dee's husband, Johnny (aka Elvis, much to his chagrin) played by former Clash front-man Joe Strummer. Having drunk himself silly after losing his job and brandishing a gun, Johnny, along with his buddy Will Robinson (former stand-up comic Rick Aviles) and brother-in-law Charlie (Steve Buscemi), robs a liquor store, wounding severely the owner in the process, and spends the night hiding out in the hotel getting drunk. This results in Charlie getting shot in the leg, only to find out that Johnny isn't his real brother-in-law. Come morning the three escape a police car that isn't even looking for them.

     

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