by Chris MaGee
Just thought I’d give everyone a heads up that Issue #79 of Rue Morgue Magazine that’s on the newsstands now has got a lengthy and interesting article titled “Underage Rage in Japan”. Writers Dave Alexander and Jovanka Vuckovic speak with director Sion Sono (Suicide Circle, Strange Circus), Midnighteye.com co-founder Tom Mes and Japanese cinema expert Jay McRoy about how the trends of youth violence and suicide in Japan have “led to some of the country's most outrageous, if stunningly cruel and bloody, cult films,” specifically highlighting Nobuo Iguchi’s “The Machine Girl”, Yoshihiro Nishimura’s “Tokyo Gore Police” and Tetsuo Shinohara’s “Karaoke Terror”.
It seems like a strange mix of films if you want to discuss youth violence and suicide, especially “Tokyo Gore Police”. I’d think that some other recent films like Takashi Miike’s “Crows Zero” or Yukio Ninagawa’s “Hebi ni Pierce” would have been better choices, but not even Miike’s story about high school gangs has got the genre film credibility of any of the films featured in the article, but any press is good press, I suppose, especially when it comes to “Karaoke Terror” one of my recent favorites.
It seems like a strange mix of films if you want to discuss youth violence and suicide, especially “Tokyo Gore Police”. I’d think that some other recent films like Takashi Miike’s “Crows Zero” or Yukio Ninagawa’s “Hebi ni Pierce” would have been better choices, but not even Miike’s story about high school gangs has got the genre film credibility of any of the films featured in the article, but any press is good press, I suppose, especially when it comes to “Karaoke Terror” one of my recent favorites.
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if you translate the title 『蛇にピアス』 you should actually get 'hebi ni piasu' - though i can understand the mistake, as "piasu" is clearly a katakana abbreviation of the word "pierce" or "piercing" as in... well... it's title "snakes and earrings".
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