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Survive Style 5+ (Gen Sekiguchi, 2004)

5 crazy stories in Japan entangle into a even crazier potpourri of action, comedy and brutal murders. All story lines develop independently from each other. A crazy artist tries to continually kill his wife, but every time he inters her body in the woods, he finds her resurrected when he returns home. And her intentions are revengeful. A frustrated marketing woman tries to take revenge on her chauvinistic lover, a group of burglars with repressed homosexual feelings and a British killer and his translator roam the streets of Japan. The underlying theme here is acceptance and through all the weirdness of this movie the general motive of everyone is to be accepted by everybody else. In itself a wonderful idea, although I had the feeling that "I'm a Cyborg, but that's OK" handles the same subject much more efficiently and gratifying. The ending of two stories is surprising and quite beautiful. I loved the bird man story. It was touching and funny at the sa...