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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 8

Fresh: 2

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 4.3/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Apr 16, 2003 Limited

Synopsis: The film opens in a surrealistic mountain setting as a young, determined Toshiko (Sie Kohinata), executes a daring escape from her sexually abusive, obsessive and oppressive, lunatic uncle Sonezaki... The film opens in a surrealistic mountain setting as a young, determined Toshiko (Sie Kohinata), executes a daring escape from her sexually abusive, obsessive and oppressive, lunatic uncle Sonezaki (Yohachi Shimada). Speeding away down the road, she notices a man running hastily through the woods, clad in nothing but underwear. Distracted, she does not notice the car from which he is running...until she collides with it head-on. Flash back to before the accident: Samehada (Tadanobu Asano), the virile robin-hood-esque nemesis of the Yakuza, is interrupted from a hot, chaotic menage-a-trois by a team of professional hitmen hellbent on recovering their stolen loot and wiping him out in the process. After Samehada is saved by the collision, he thinks fast, jumps behind the wheel and speeds off with Toshiko, unconscious, riding beside him. Uncle Sonezaki, realizing Toshiko’s disappearance, hires the gun-crazed mercenary Yamada (Tatsuya Gasyuin) to hunt down and return her. The Yakuza gang, headed up by crimelord Sawada (Susumu Terashima), continues on a restless pursuit for Samehada and thier stolen money. What ensues is a wacky chase that transports the audience into the comically violent and tragically hip world of bizarre characters. From the "knife expert" whose personality is that of a straight-laced nine-to-fiver to the spoiled mafia brat best described as a fashion victim; from a self-described "hitman" with no history of a hit to the icy, mob-queen that converses with silence and cigarettes, this ensemble ranks high among those from such films as TRUE ROMANCE and RESEVOIR DOGS . Turning the classical getaway story on it’s ear, director Katsuhito Ishii brings a fresh new look to a classical cinema genre. -- © Kino International [More]

Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Shie Kohinata, Ittoku Kishibe

Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Shie Kohinata, Ittoku Kishibe

Director: Katsuhito Ishii

Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Studio: Kino International

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The movie is visually impressive, but Ishii's virtuoso style can't overcome the flatness of the comic-book story he's telling.

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06/05/03
David Sterritt
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A colorful hip updating of the two-on-the-lam motif popular since the 1930s.

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05/05/03
Donald J. Levit
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Comes across like an overextended music video that would leave even Madonna drooling.

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04/23/03
Frank Scheck
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Most of the film relies on music-video velocity that can be a bit too jarring, even for a live-action cartoon.

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04/22/03
Rod Granger
Film Journal International

The funky title of this Japanese yakuza bloodletting is, alas, better than the film itself.

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04/18/03
V.A. Musetto
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Both exceptionally satisfying and enormously entertaining.

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04/16/03
Ken Fox
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Makes killing look like high-spirited fun and turns violent death into an occasion for giggles and snickers.

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04/15/03
Dave Kehr
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Falls into the clotheshorse cliché: all dressed up and no place to go.

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04/15/03
Ed Park
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