I'm still trying to figure this movie out, was this supposed to be a horror movie? turns out to be more of a comedy. When I saw this movie in the store and read the box it said "Made by the team that brought you Ringu, Ju-on, and Audition." now those are three great powerhouse movies and I thought that this movie would be the same, Boy was I wrong! This movie is more cheesy than hunk of Limburger and smells about the same.It kind of reminds me of all the videos you find on the internet these days, the ones where a bunch of college aged kids are trying to make a horror movie but all they end up with is a low budget soft porn with blood. This movie also reminds me of movies they showed on MST3K, on the plus side for this movie is the good looking actresses and nudity and the fact that it wasn't boring, maybe because your mind is asking you "are we really watching this?"
17 Reviews
Not your average horror/comedy/soft-porn/kungfu/musical/mystery/action/thriller
Latheman-911 February 2005
I would have to say the most bizarre movie I've seen to date is Shinya Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo" (1988), but "Crazy Lips" comes in a close second. Writer Hiroshi Takahashi, director Hirohisa Sasaki, and producer Takashige Ichise all have a hand in piling genre upon genre in the making of this uncategorizable film. There's something for everybody here, and no hint as to what direction the movie is headed from one scene to the next, so just sit back and enjoy the ride. The only American-made films I've seen that come even remotely close to this amalgamation of forms are "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" (1984) and "Six-string Samurai" (1998). If you like either of those, or even if you don't, then this movie is worth catching. Rating: 6/10.
Crazy Lips......Crazy Film
kasserine22 April 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Where do you start with a movie like this?
I guess from the beginning? Crazy Lips is a Japanese comedy film with some horror-thriller elements thrown in. The basic storyline centers on a family being besieged by reporters and the local police. The brother in the family is suspected of being a serial killer who has disposed of his victims by chopping of their heads. The police want the remaining family members, mother and two daughters, to tell them where the brother is. Daughter Satomi, essentially the protagonist, believes her brother is innocent and enlists the aide of two bizarre, and ultimately unscrupulous, psychics to help her find the real murderer.
The film starts of in a fairly straightforward manner. There are some interesting cuts between what's happening in the "real world" of the film and what we then see through the television camera eye. Nothing unconventional, at first. When the psychics enter, Crazy Lips shifts from mystery/thriller to horror and proceeds from there to the unconventional, disturbing and comically surreal.
To give an illustration of this consider this progression, Satomi is harassed by the police, her mother is raped by one of the psychics, Satomi realizes she has destructive psychic abilities and kills a detective, federal agents talk to her through the television and she is forced to have sex with a recently hung corpse.
And, believe it or not, it gets even more bizarre from there, which is why it's difficult to describe the film to anyone who hasn't seen it. This reason is also why the film doesn't really work. It doesn't follow any inherent logic within itself. Too many things are happening. Even the disturbing aspects of Crazy Lips get tiresome after awhile once the shock value has worn off and only succeeds in alienating the viewer. It is scary at times, funny, and many other things. The film is relentless.
It is my understanding the director and writer were hired to create a film with certain guidelines in mind. It wouldn't be hard to imagine them getting together and deciding to create the most unusual film possible within the boundaries set by the studio. Crazy Lips certainly seems that way and the result is interesting at times, though ultimately tedious and silly.
I guess from the beginning? Crazy Lips is a Japanese comedy film with some horror-thriller elements thrown in. The basic storyline centers on a family being besieged by reporters and the local police. The brother in the family is suspected of being a serial killer who has disposed of his victims by chopping of their heads. The police want the remaining family members, mother and two daughters, to tell them where the brother is. Daughter Satomi, essentially the protagonist, believes her brother is innocent and enlists the aide of two bizarre, and ultimately unscrupulous, psychics to help her find the real murderer.
The film starts of in a fairly straightforward manner. There are some interesting cuts between what's happening in the "real world" of the film and what we then see through the television camera eye. Nothing unconventional, at first. When the psychics enter, Crazy Lips shifts from mystery/thriller to horror and proceeds from there to the unconventional, disturbing and comically surreal.
To give an illustration of this consider this progression, Satomi is harassed by the police, her mother is raped by one of the psychics, Satomi realizes she has destructive psychic abilities and kills a detective, federal agents talk to her through the television and she is forced to have sex with a recently hung corpse.
And, believe it or not, it gets even more bizarre from there, which is why it's difficult to describe the film to anyone who hasn't seen it. This reason is also why the film doesn't really work. It doesn't follow any inherent logic within itself. Too many things are happening. Even the disturbing aspects of Crazy Lips get tiresome after awhile once the shock value has worn off and only succeeds in alienating the viewer. It is scary at times, funny, and many other things. The film is relentless.
It is my understanding the director and writer were hired to create a film with certain guidelines in mind. It wouldn't be hard to imagine them getting together and deciding to create the most unusual film possible within the boundaries set by the studio. Crazy Lips certainly seems that way and the result is interesting at times, though ultimately tedious and silly.
completely ridiculous and enjoyable, cheapened by laborious rape scenes
wjohanb24 February 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Crazy Lips is a thoroughly enjoyable and bizarre flick, where I really had no idea what was coming next, and often was enthralled by new hilarious or thrilling twists and turns. But, in the end, I found myself simply feeling ill, for the basic reason that 4 out of the 5 female characters in the film are raped, in the traditional anime style of,"wait, are those sounds of pain and trauma or are the girls getting off on this"? Among all the gleefull gross and inventive gags, this repeating aspect simply disturbed me. I understand that to take anything of this movie and treat it seriously is rather silly, but I was bothered by the rapes presented as such. Anal rape! Ha ha ha! It just didn't sit well with me, and made it difficult to enjoy the rest of the flick. I'm not so narrow minded as to think that these scenes will inspire people to rape young girls in the ass as they are forced onto the erection of a dying hanging man, but the gratuitous shots of the young girls sweaty chest, her sounds of pain and anguish slowly turning into gasps of excitement and pleasure as she is (with overt squelching noises) violated from in front and behind represent a disturbing attitude that rape, such a violent and tragic reality, isn't really that bad; that girls might even like it, or deserve it. Certainly others have been able to enjoy the movie despite these scenes, and one could easily say that I'm being hypocritical, as I have no qualms about the violence and torture in the film being presented humorously. Maybe so, but I have yet to find any aspect of rape, no matter how cartoonishly or ridiculously it is presented, entertaining. There is a very real social stigma about rape, in America, Japan, and everywhere else. It is a brutal reality that is perpetrated on women and children and men as well every day across the globe, and it is also the least reported crime in the world. Such a very brutal and destructive crime perhaps should merely be treated with respect for the victims, not exploitation, no matter how harmlessly intended.
This is not a horror movie.
Negai11 February 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Don't pay attention to the comments on the front of the cover: This is most definitely not a horror movie. In fact, I don't think it has a genre.
When I picked this movie up, I expected to be scared. Instead, I was mildly disgusted, mildly amused, and mostly disappointed. If you like cheap, tasteless humour, then you'll like this. People say it's bizarre, but all they did was try to see how many shocking things they could put in an hour and twenty minutes. It almost reminds me of hentai (Anime porn), since nearly every time they rape one of the girls, they end up liking it. The necrophilia/anal rape scene was probably the worst. It was fairly pointless. If this film had a plot, it wouldn't fit.
The funniest thing about this film was probably Lucy. That and the fact that every character was randomly a martial arts expert at the end. I wish I were that skilled with a heavy axe. Just when you think one character is sane and has a personality (the main character), she spits out "Nii-san (brother), I'm pregnant with your child!" All together, this is both a failed attempt at humour and horror. If you do decide to get it, don't expect a plot or anything. This is nothing like Takashi Miike or any other thing you've probably seen.
When I picked this movie up, I expected to be scared. Instead, I was mildly disgusted, mildly amused, and mostly disappointed. If you like cheap, tasteless humour, then you'll like this. People say it's bizarre, but all they did was try to see how many shocking things they could put in an hour and twenty minutes. It almost reminds me of hentai (Anime porn), since nearly every time they rape one of the girls, they end up liking it. The necrophilia/anal rape scene was probably the worst. It was fairly pointless. If this film had a plot, it wouldn't fit.
The funniest thing about this film was probably Lucy. That and the fact that every character was randomly a martial arts expert at the end. I wish I were that skilled with a heavy axe. Just when you think one character is sane and has a personality (the main character), she spits out "Nii-san (brother), I'm pregnant with your child!" All together, this is both a failed attempt at humour and horror. If you do decide to get it, don't expect a plot or anything. This is nothing like Takashi Miike or any other thing you've probably seen.
Not weird...just very Japanese.
Boba_Fett113829 October 2011
The foremost reason why people seem to like this movie is because it's weird. But weird or unusual of course doesn't always also equal good. And thrust me, I have seen plenty of weird stuff, also from Japan, in my life, so I think I know what I'm talking about. And no, this movie just wasn't all that good to watch.
The problem I had with the movie was that I just never really was entertained by it. It's an horror comedy but neither the horror or comedy really impressed me. As a matter of fact, you could hardly call this an horror at all. It only features some ghosts walking around but as it turns out, this doesn't even play an all that central role in the movie.
Also the comedy just wasn't anything that clever or original and instead too often come across as lame and very simplistic instead.
Elements such as nudity, rape, incest, violence gore, are all very much present throughout the movie. Yes, it has all the elements of an exploitation flick, it just isn't a very good one. It all feels very forced and very obviously wanted deliberately to gross out its viewers, by becoming as extreme and weird as possible. Most of the stuff really doesn't make any sense in the context of the story, which as a whole also makes this quite a redundant watch.
Because of all these many different elements, the movie also never flows very well. It doesn't really has a pleasant pace to it, though it's quite hard to tell if this is due to the directing approach, or simply just the script of the movie. I tend to think it's the script, that was just far too lacking in real originality and good creativity.
No Sir, I did not really liked this movie. I never had any fun with it and would even call it quite a pointless watch, so ye be warned!
4/10
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The problem I had with the movie was that I just never really was entertained by it. It's an horror comedy but neither the horror or comedy really impressed me. As a matter of fact, you could hardly call this an horror at all. It only features some ghosts walking around but as it turns out, this doesn't even play an all that central role in the movie.
Also the comedy just wasn't anything that clever or original and instead too often come across as lame and very simplistic instead.
Elements such as nudity, rape, incest, violence gore, are all very much present throughout the movie. Yes, it has all the elements of an exploitation flick, it just isn't a very good one. It all feels very forced and very obviously wanted deliberately to gross out its viewers, by becoming as extreme and weird as possible. Most of the stuff really doesn't make any sense in the context of the story, which as a whole also makes this quite a redundant watch.
Because of all these many different elements, the movie also never flows very well. It doesn't really has a pleasant pace to it, though it's quite hard to tell if this is due to the directing approach, or simply just the script of the movie. I tend to think it's the script, that was just far too lacking in real originality and good creativity.
No Sir, I did not really liked this movie. I never had any fun with it and would even call it quite a pointless watch, so ye be warned!
4/10
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Twisted Japanese horror comedy.
HumanoidOfFlesh11 March 2015
Hirohisa Sasaki's "Crazy Lips" left me stunned.The film mixes pinku eiga rape scenes with martial arts,comedy,gore and musical numbers.Michio Kurahashi has been accused for killing and decapitating schoolgirls.His sister Satomi believes that he is innocent.She enlists the services of a psychic named Etsuko Mamiya and her sleazy assistant Touma and all hell breaks loose in the family of Kurahashi."Crazy Lips" is gleefully weird and tasteless.It has rapes committed by Touma,silly FBI agents,bloody murders and cheesy musical number.The cinematography is lovely and there are some well-choreographed martial arts during the climax.7 scalps out of 10.Still haven't seen sequel to "Crazy Lips" titled "Gore from Outer Space".
Save your time, money and dignity
jonathan-s-baker27 July 2006
This movie is awful. The Plot is impossible to follow. Even if you got rid of the sickening and confusing visuals, there is no natural progression of events in this movie. None of the character's motivations are clear. So things happen and there is absolutely no explanation for these events, now or later.
There are things that happen in this movie that are bad and no one would want to see these things. This movie is like a traffic accident except that unlike a horrifying traffic accident, it is very easy to look away from this movie.
I am by no standard a prude or a radical Christian Conservative, but this movie sickened my sensibilities. I must warn you if you like gore, then you will not like this movie. If you like mysteries, then you will not like this movie.
I'm pretty sure that the people involved in making this movie were all working with a different idea of what the finished product would look like. I don't think that any one person could work to make something this bad.
This movie does not even have the redeeming value of being so bad that it could be considered funny.
I came to own this movie. I will not say that I actually purchased it, but I can't deny that I did. I had to give it away and make the poor sap who took it promise not to tell anyone where he got it. He then gave it away under a similar contract. The movie ended up back on his doorstep like a sick and unwanted cat.
There are things that happen in this movie that are bad and no one would want to see these things. This movie is like a traffic accident except that unlike a horrifying traffic accident, it is very easy to look away from this movie.
I am by no standard a prude or a radical Christian Conservative, but this movie sickened my sensibilities. I must warn you if you like gore, then you will not like this movie. If you like mysteries, then you will not like this movie.
I'm pretty sure that the people involved in making this movie were all working with a different idea of what the finished product would look like. I don't think that any one person could work to make something this bad.
This movie does not even have the redeeming value of being so bad that it could be considered funny.
I came to own this movie. I will not say that I actually purchased it, but I can't deny that I did. I had to give it away and make the poor sap who took it promise not to tell anyone where he got it. He then gave it away under a similar contract. The movie ended up back on his doorstep like a sick and unwanted cat.
You like weird sh!t? Here ya go!
ElijahCSkuggs20 October 2009
It seems that every bozo who's written a comment for this movie has eventually come to a point and admitted that they gave up with trying to follow the plot. But not me! I stuck it out, and I'll now tell you exactly what transpired in Crazy Lips.
Nah, I'm messing with you. I gave up as well. I did. Here's a quick glimpse into what Crazy Lips has to offer. The flick starts off with a family being bombarded by news reporters who want answers about their possible murdering brother. They hire some crazy psychic broad who can remote-sense through telephone lines, then there's her boob squeezin' obsessed side-kick. Then you find out one of the sisters has some type of super mind control power that she uses to kill people with, then the psychic chick orders 'ceremonies' on the entire family that basically just rapes them.....I can go on and on with the whackiness on display here. And it only gets weirder. You want incest and necrophilia? Okay! By the end it turned into a action flick with fights all over the place, and there was even some type of monster 'thing' supposedly on the loose. And there was even a song in the middle of the movie.
Okay, Crazy Lips is nuts. It's that simple. But it's also entertaining. And if you dig any type of weirdness with elements of exploitation, then this should be right up your weird ass alley.
Nah, I'm messing with you. I gave up as well. I did. Here's a quick glimpse into what Crazy Lips has to offer. The flick starts off with a family being bombarded by news reporters who want answers about their possible murdering brother. They hire some crazy psychic broad who can remote-sense through telephone lines, then there's her boob squeezin' obsessed side-kick. Then you find out one of the sisters has some type of super mind control power that she uses to kill people with, then the psychic chick orders 'ceremonies' on the entire family that basically just rapes them.....I can go on and on with the whackiness on display here. And it only gets weirder. You want incest and necrophilia? Okay! By the end it turned into a action flick with fights all over the place, and there was even some type of monster 'thing' supposedly on the loose. And there was even a song in the middle of the movie.
Okay, Crazy Lips is nuts. It's that simple. But it's also entertaining. And if you dig any type of weirdness with elements of exploitation, then this should be right up your weird ass alley.
Hard watch
BandSAboutMovies31 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Hirohisa Sasaki also directed Gore From Outer Space, but this movie, wow. A man may have killed several women and the press line up outside their family home, needing to know the truth. One of his sisters decides that she must prove her brother's innocence, so she goes to a psychic but that's when things get really bad, as the psychic and his assistant brutalize the family, using their own trauma to get inside and then destroy them.
This is in no way recommended for sane people or those with any level of morality. Also, you may be confused whether this is a comedy - what with all the singing and kung fu scenes, as well as the weird FBI agents - or a movie out to shock you with necrophilia, assaults and incest or just something that could only come from Japan, which is probably the best answer to "What did I just watch?"
Japan - you embrace a bleak ending like no one else save 1970s New Hollywood directors.
This is in no way recommended for sane people or those with any level of morality. Also, you may be confused whether this is a comedy - what with all the singing and kung fu scenes, as well as the weird FBI agents - or a movie out to shock you with necrophilia, assaults and incest or just something that could only come from Japan, which is probably the best answer to "What did I just watch?"
Japan - you embrace a bleak ending like no one else save 1970s New Hollywood directors.
Unlike anything I've ever seen... ...In a good way.
studboyslim25 December 2004
Crazy Lips is every sick and twisted thing you could possibly fit in a two hour movie, jumping from genre to genre without missing a beat, and it's all the better for it's apparent senselessness. It's billed as being "from the makers of Ringu, Juon and Audition", but don't expect a haunting ghost story. This film defies classification, and must be seen to be believed. My only warning is that this movie is very graphic and perverse. I recently held a screening of this film for some friends, and though many walked out before the end, those who stayed laughed hard and long. If sick and twisted are adjectives that have been used to describe you, be sure not to miss Crazy Lips.
The Stain
melanie-22828 August 2006
This movie can only and has only been described in my circle of friends as the Stain. Because all who witness it's perverse power find themselves Stained. It's not that the movies bad, it's just that so many horrible things in-explicitly interwoven with so much randomness, that you laugh when things are horrifying and you clutch yourself in terror when something random and almost funny happens. And as you sit through more and more of it, you find that a funny black smudge is starting to infect your soul. Not a lot of it, but enough to be noticeable.
After much scrubbing and scalding oil, we found the Stain to be fastly stuck with no possible solution. Unless you see Gore From Outer Space. Gore can in some ways, reverse some small effects of Crazy Lips....not all of the Stainness will be removed, but enough of it to breathe freely (and not find yourself feeling sick).
Hope this was helpful
After much scrubbing and scalding oil, we found the Stain to be fastly stuck with no possible solution. Unless you see Gore From Outer Space. Gore can in some ways, reverse some small effects of Crazy Lips....not all of the Stainness will be removed, but enough of it to breathe freely (and not find yourself feeling sick).
Hope this was helpful
WTF did I just watch??
meteoraxv26 May 2012
"WTF did I just watch??" was the only thing that went through my mind when the credits started to roll.
This movie is messed up in all kinds of ways. An amateur mess of different genres. It just jerks from supernatural to horror to comedy to musical to violence to drama to WTF?? I tried hard to get a general concept of the plot. But there really isn't one at all. It's not worth mentioning the plot because the story is loose, messed up, messy, just not a plot at all.
This movie isn't weird, or even so bad it's funny, it's just plain bad. Maybe that was the goal of the makers, because apparently the project was sold to a Chinese company, who told them what kind of film to make, and so the makers decided to mess up the movie, just to tick off the Chinese company.
I didn't really enjoy sitting through the length of this movie. I've read a lot of reviews prior to watching this film, telling me that it's just a really weird, disturbing, messed up movie. Not really. It was just plain bad. I expected a bit more. 3*
This movie is messed up in all kinds of ways. An amateur mess of different genres. It just jerks from supernatural to horror to comedy to musical to violence to drama to WTF?? I tried hard to get a general concept of the plot. But there really isn't one at all. It's not worth mentioning the plot because the story is loose, messed up, messy, just not a plot at all.
This movie isn't weird, or even so bad it's funny, it's just plain bad. Maybe that was the goal of the makers, because apparently the project was sold to a Chinese company, who told them what kind of film to make, and so the makers decided to mess up the movie, just to tick off the Chinese company.
I didn't really enjoy sitting through the length of this movie. I've read a lot of reviews prior to watching this film, telling me that it's just a really weird, disturbing, messed up movie. Not really. It was just plain bad. I expected a bit more. 3*
Only from Japan.
BA_Harrison25 June 2009
When Michio Kurahashi is suspected of being a serial killer and goes on the run, his pretty sister Satomi hires a psychic in a desperate bid to prove his innocence. And precisely what happens after that is anyone's guess...
I usually jot down notes whilst watching a film to help make life easier for me when it comes to writing a comment, but about half an hour into Crazy Lips I put down my pen and paper, for accurately summarising the plot to this insane movie was clearly going to be impossible and all the scribbling in the world wouldn't help me to express my feelings about it.
So I'm going to wing it, sans notation; bear with me...
In a world where most mainstream cinema has become dull and predictable, I can always find time for the completely demented and bizarre, and Crazy Lips is just that—a depraved, off-the-wall piece of Japanese cinema that defies simple categorisation. Supernatural horror, mystery, music, soft porn, and martial arts are combined by director Hirohisa Sasakito to produce a messed up piece of work reminiscent of movie maverick Takashi Miike's offbeat output, only one lacking that director's unique narrative skills, sense of style and intelligence.
But although Sasaki might not be a real threat to Miike when it comes to confrontational cinema (Takashi still holds the title 'King of Japanese Weirdness' for producing monumentally effed up movies like Visitor Q and Fudoh), Crazy Lips is still the only film I have ever seen to feature the wandering spirits of decapitated girls, a pair of FBI agents who keep an eye on proceedings through the screen of a television set, a scalping during intercourse, and a woman being forcefully double teamed by an evil psychic's assistant and a hanging corpse with a hard-on.
All of which must surely count for something.
I usually jot down notes whilst watching a film to help make life easier for me when it comes to writing a comment, but about half an hour into Crazy Lips I put down my pen and paper, for accurately summarising the plot to this insane movie was clearly going to be impossible and all the scribbling in the world wouldn't help me to express my feelings about it.
So I'm going to wing it, sans notation; bear with me...
In a world where most mainstream cinema has become dull and predictable, I can always find time for the completely demented and bizarre, and Crazy Lips is just that—a depraved, off-the-wall piece of Japanese cinema that defies simple categorisation. Supernatural horror, mystery, music, soft porn, and martial arts are combined by director Hirohisa Sasakito to produce a messed up piece of work reminiscent of movie maverick Takashi Miike's offbeat output, only one lacking that director's unique narrative skills, sense of style and intelligence.
But although Sasaki might not be a real threat to Miike when it comes to confrontational cinema (Takashi still holds the title 'King of Japanese Weirdness' for producing monumentally effed up movies like Visitor Q and Fudoh), Crazy Lips is still the only film I have ever seen to feature the wandering spirits of decapitated girls, a pair of FBI agents who keep an eye on proceedings through the screen of a television set, a scalping during intercourse, and a woman being forcefully double teamed by an evil psychic's assistant and a hanging corpse with a hard-on.
All of which must surely count for something.
YOU CAN SEE THEM, CAN'T YOU?
nogodnomasters18 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The plot starts out simply and then goes through levels of twists and complexities that by the time the film was over, I couldn't understand the title anymore. Michio, Kurahashi (Kazuma Suzuki) is accused of killing and beheading four girls. He is hunted by the police. Mom and his two sisters are harassed by the town and police. In desperation his sister Satomi (Hitomi Miwa) consults a psychic (Yoshiko Yura) who has her own smoke machine, eerie theme music, ankh, and exorbitant price.
Her assistant takes some of the fee in trade by raping mom and the older daughter...as all part of the ceremony. The detective who investigates the case also wants sex, and midway through the film some weird FBI agents get involved. By the time they get to finding the four missing heads, figuring out the real killer, I had to wonder what is really going on.
At one point our main character breaks into a song, but not with the Bollywood flash mob.
The film is unique in a bizarre sort of way and I wonder if I didn't miss something in a cultural translation.
Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, necrophilia, nudity (Hijiri Natsukawa, Tomomi Kuribayashi, Yumi Yoshiyuki,)
Her assistant takes some of the fee in trade by raping mom and the older daughter...as all part of the ceremony. The detective who investigates the case also wants sex, and midway through the film some weird FBI agents get involved. By the time they get to finding the four missing heads, figuring out the real killer, I had to wonder what is really going on.
At one point our main character breaks into a song, but not with the Bollywood flash mob.
The film is unique in a bizarre sort of way and I wonder if I didn't miss something in a cultural translation.
Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, rape, necrophilia, nudity (Hijiri Natsukawa, Tomomi Kuribayashi, Yumi Yoshiyuki,)
Wild and unpredictable! Cult cinema at its finest!
HarryWarden29 November 2004
I've been a long time Asian cinema fan. I've seen more strange and offbeat foreign films than most can imagine. But nothing...and I mean NOTHING...could have ever prepared me for this.
Writing a review for 'Crazy Lips' is difficult, because this kind of movie is practically indescribable. It's the kind of hyperactive weirdness that only the Japanese can make.
'Crazy Lips' starts off like a serious horror film...but grows progressively strange as it moves on. Lots of sex, gore, kung-fu and off-key musical numbers are thrown in. It's a twisted film, made by twisted minds for twisted audiences.
If you like exploitation, trash cinema or just plain bizarre movies, then you won't find anything better than this little cult gem. It's one of the most fun and shocking movies I've seen in years.
Writing a review for 'Crazy Lips' is difficult, because this kind of movie is practically indescribable. It's the kind of hyperactive weirdness that only the Japanese can make.
'Crazy Lips' starts off like a serious horror film...but grows progressively strange as it moves on. Lots of sex, gore, kung-fu and off-key musical numbers are thrown in. It's a twisted film, made by twisted minds for twisted audiences.
If you like exploitation, trash cinema or just plain bizarre movies, then you won't find anything better than this little cult gem. It's one of the most fun and shocking movies I've seen in years.
A.K.A. Crazy Lips. Every cliché you want to see, at once.
whatdoes1know30 October 2001
Warning: Spoilers
The excuse for the rest of the movie is a story about a widow and two daughters being harrassed by neighbors and media alike as the missing son is the prime suspect of the recent beheadings of middle school girls. When the equally harrassing police fails to help them look for the son, the younger daughter consults a psi-detective and her assistant. Director Sasaki's efforts to throw in every type of entertainment in 85 minutes of film has won him some praise for making a movie rising above all genre-boundaries in a mind-blowing treat. Criticism has accused him of not knowing where to stop--the director himself acknowledged this.
I personally had the chance to ask him whose lips were going crazy, and he was embarrassed to answer that the title came before the plot, and just stayed there through the re-draftings of the movie.
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* FYI, Miwa Hitomi is a better singer than the movie lets you think, and Abe Hiroshi personally asked the director to give him all of Shimomoto Shiro's lines--to which his managers strongly objected and as always in Japan, had their way. Most of the film budget was saved for the grand finale. None of the actors were really interested in working with this movie when they got the script. All this information was given by the director himself in an interview after the movie's screening in his hometown, which I attended.
I personally had the chance to ask him whose lips were going crazy, and he was embarrassed to answer that the title came before the plot, and just stayed there through the re-draftings of the movie.
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* FYI, Miwa Hitomi is a better singer than the movie lets you think, and Abe Hiroshi personally asked the director to give him all of Shimomoto Shiro's lines--to which his managers strongly objected and as always in Japan, had their way. Most of the film budget was saved for the grand finale. None of the actors were really interested in working with this movie when they got the script. All this information was given by the director himself in an interview after the movie's screening in his hometown, which I attended.
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