| Survive Style 5+ | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Gen Sekiguchi |
| Written by | Taku Tada[1] |
| Produced by | Hiroyuki Taniguchi |
| Starring | |
| Edited by | Gen Sekiguchi[1] |
| Music by | James Shimoji[1] |
Production company | Tohokushinsha Film[1] |
Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan[1] |
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Survive Style 5+ is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Gen Sekiguchi and produced by Hiroyuki Taniguchi.[1] It stars Tadanobu Asano, Kyōko Koizumi, Reika Hashimoto, Jai West, Sonny Chiba and Vinnie Jones.
Synopsis
The film follows five simultaneous, loosely linked plot lines, that intertwine and scramble together. A man (Tadanobu Asano) keeps killing his wife (Reika Hashimoto) and burying her in the woods only to find her alive, furious, and waiting for him when he returns home. A suburban family's life is disrupted when the father (Ittoku Kishibe) is permanently hypnotized into believing he is a bird and tries to learn how to fly. A trio of aimless youth pass time by burgling houses. A murderous advertising executive (Kyōko Koizumi) tries to imagine ideas for commercials. The stories clash together through the intervention of a thuggish hitman (Vinnie Jones) and his translator (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa).
Cast
- Tadanobu Asano as Masahiro Ishigaki
- Reika Hashimoto as Mimi, Ishigaki's wife
- Pierre Taki as a motorcycle policeman
- Kyōko Koizumi as Yoko, the commercial businesswoman
- Asumi Miwa as a waitress
- Hiroshi Abe as Aoyama, the hypnotist
- Ittoku Kishibe as Tatsuya Kobayashi, the husband
- Yumi Asō as Misa Kobayashi, the wife
- Shihori Kanjiya as Kaho Kobayashi, the daughter
- Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Keiichi Kobayashi, the son
- Kanji Tsuda as a Tsuda, a burglar
- Yoshiyuki Morishita as Morishita, a burglar
- Jai West as J, a burglar
- Vinnie Jones as Jimmy Funky Knife, an assassin
- Yoshiyoshi Arakawa as Katagiri, the assassin's interpreter
- Tae Kimura as a flight attendant
- Sonny Chiba as Kazama, a pharmaceutical company president
- Tomokazu Miura as Yamauchi, a doctor
Release
Survive Style 5+ was shown at the Locarno Film Festival on August 6, 2004.[1]
Soundtrack
The film's original soundtrack is by James Shimoji, and additionally features songs by Takkyu Ishino and Yasuyuki Okamura, Rob Laufer, Jim Gilstrap, Jess Harnell, and Cake.
References
External links
- Survive Style 5+ at IMDb
- Survive Style 5+ at AllMovie
- ＳＵＲＶＩＶＥ ＳＴＹＬＥ５＋ (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-07-21.