Japanese Cinema Tip
Junk Food (Region 1) - Yamamoto, MasashiReleasedatum: 25 mei 2004
Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, Junk Food casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. Junk Food depicts the hitherto unseen world of aberrant sexuality and savage violence that emerges when the sun goes down and clean, orderly Tokyo exposes its sordid underbelly. From gambling dens to wrestling rings, through makeshift funerals and crime-of-passion murders, director Masashi Yamamoto expertly knits together a series of smoky, neon-lit vignettes with documentary immediacy and gruesome clarity. Cashing in her antiseptic white-collar world for a white powder hell of lethal sex-play and furtive drug abuse, a beautiful young computer programmer unravels her way to the gutter. Clinging to an empty dream of success, a Pakistani immigrant graduates from armed robbery to double homicide. Using the same copycat precision with which they dress and drive, a carbon copy LA style street gang mounts a bloodthirsty coup d’etat of appalling viciousness. Both detached and explicit, Junk Food is a post-modern travelogue of Tokyo vice that strips away the trappings of conventional crime films and lays bare the fractured fates and animal emotions of those at the edge of modern urban life. Boasting an "absorbing visual style and intense performances by non-professional actors" (The San Francisco Guardian), Junk Food offers a knife-point tour of a haunting inferno peopled by a rogues gallery of human scoria with no means of escape and no road home.
DVD Extra's:
Interview with director Masashi Yamamoto Theatrical trailer TV spot Trailer gallery Stills gallery Optional English subtitles
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