Nipple-targeting seagulls. Old men rapping in a bathhouse. Drugs smuggled as Italian pasta. Welcom...
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.
余乐欣,张艺洋,田京峰
李来,陈瑞妍,孙锡久,郑秀斌,李正河
沃伊捷赫·福多兹芝基,Ondrej Stupka,塔蒂阿娜·保霍福娃,Stanislav Majer,沃依特赫·科特克,玛丽卡·索波斯卡,佩德罗·林涅尼奇卡,马丁·霍夫曼,Petr Halícek,马提亚斯·热兹尼切克,Jacob Erftemeijer,扬·奈德巴尔,托马斯·马斯塔利,伊戈尔·巴雷斯,Michaela Majerníková,Jevgenij Libeznuk,扬·诺沃特尼,Tomás Weber,丹尼尔·图马,Kupcová Marie Anna
栗原飒人,日高由起刀,林裕太,彭泽萱,祷云母,Arazi,佐野史郎,渡边真起子,中岛步,Pushim
萨莉塔·乔德霍里,蒂莫西·斯波,佩德罗·卡萨布兰科,安娜·托伦特,卡门·马奇
伊藤万理华
