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| | Survive Style 5+ (2004) - Channel 4 Film review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Asano Tadanobu, Shihori Kanjiya, Kyôko Koizumi, Hiroshi Abe, Vinnie Jones, Yukmi Asou, Reika Hasimoto, Yosi Yosi Arakawa, Sonny Chiba |
 | | It'll just be a one-way exercise in masturbation," says Yoko (Koizumi), a frustrated ad exec whose outlandish efforts punctuate the livid pop cultural landscape of this bizarre fl comedy. |
 | | It's a comment that has particular relevance here, not just because director Gen Sekiguchi's background in commercials is evident in the visual hyperbole of every sumptuous, over-designed frame, but because this is cinema that puts lysergic spectacle ahead of story, burlesque brilliance before coherence, and sensation over sense. |
| www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=155799 (247 words) |
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