Nipple-targeting seagulls. Old men rapping in a bathhouse. Drugs smuggled as Italian pasta. Welcome back to The Mole Song’s world. The third and final part of this series of manga adaptations, by IFFR regular Miike Takashi, is once again loaded with delicious madness.
Following Undercover Agent Reiji (IFFR 2014) and Hong Kong Capriccio (IFFR 2017), this time the enemy are Italian mafia smuggling their ‘speed-a-roni’ into Yokohama’s port. Yakuza boss Papilon, fearing for his business, wants to stop them from entering, and so do the Japanese cops: Reiji works for both as an undercover agent. All these complications this give cult director Miike a playground for crazed subplots.
At times fooling us into thinking it’s an ordinary action thriller, The Mole Song: Final is a cocktail that smashes together slapstick comedy, farcical fantasy and puppet animation, with Reiji – played again by the energetic and engaging Ikuta Toma - always at the centre of the tornado that just keeps on spinning.
On the border between United States and Mexico, once every 20 years, there are days that locals call timelessness. At this time the gods, to whom the ancient Mayan tribes made sacrifices, descend to earth to take human souls.
经过数百年的发展,人类文明高度进化,他们逐渐将触角伸向宇宙深处。然而,随着人口激增,有限的资源消耗殆尽。到2174年,地球资源严重匮乏,资源争夺战达到顶峰。为了寻求新的生存乐土,人类向宇宙发射了名为“极乐世界”的宇宙飞船,开始漫长、未知的宇宙探索。
经过长时间的深度睡眠,船员鲍尔(本·福斯特 Ben Foster 饰)和佩顿上尉(丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰)相继醒来。不知出于何种原因,他们完全忘记了航行的目的和任务。鲍尔与佩顿合作检查飞船,很快便发现其他同伴的尸体,这些昔日的伙伴死状恐怖。而且他们似乎不是仅存的生命体,一种神秘的生物仍在威胁着他们的生命……
达瑞斯(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)曾是一名令业内人士闻风丧胆的超级杀手,如今已经缉拿归案的他屈居在铁窗之后,等待着漫长的刑期到头。达瑞斯的妻子索尼娅(萨尔玛·海耶克 Salma Hayek 饰)同样身陷囹圄,某日,达瑞斯得到了一个意外的机会,能 够令索尼娅重获自由,作为交换,他必须出庭作证证明邪恶的罪犯弗拉迪斯拉夫(加里·奥德曼 Gary Oldman 饰)有罪。
作为护送达瑞斯出庭的负责人,艾米莉亚(艾洛蒂·袁 Elodie Yung 饰)和她的团队遭到了弗拉迪斯拉夫所派出的佣兵的伏击,全军覆没,幸存的艾米莉亚无奈之下只能找到私人保镖兼前男友迈克尔(瑞安·雷诺兹 Ryan Reynolds 饰),委托他贴身保护达瑞斯。