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An anonymous man (Matsumoto Hitoshi) wakes up in a doorless white room
in his pyjamas, with no recollection of how he got there (and no
explanation is given to the audience, neither), and no idea how top get
out. The room is completely empty, but strange-looking switches - which
will eventually turn out to be angel penisses, protrude from the walls.
Whenever the man presses one of the penisses, some object is thrown into
the room from nowhere, and every penis is linked to one specific (yet
random) object. Objects include chopsticks, a vase, soy sauce, mangas, a
bonsai and a Massai warrior. Eventually, the man finds the angel penis to
open a door to wherever, but whenever he has made it from the penis in
question to the door, it's sealed off again - so the man makes up
elaborate plans to get there in time, and eventually he also gets the key
to the door and everything ... and he actually makes it - to then find out
the door only leads to a small and empty wardrobe, but once he has
realized that, his way to his former room full of angel penisses is
already sealed off. And the wardrobe is essentially empty, there are not
even more angel penisses around ... Eventually, the man finds a way to
slide aside one of the walls of the wardrobe, and all of a sudden, he
finds himself in what seems to be an endless hallway - that eventually
only leads to another, bigger room full of angel penisses. Touching angel
penisses in this room though doesn't cause anything at all ... or does it? Mexico:
The Escargot Man, a masked wrestler on a losing streak, fights yet another
match against opponents that could have him for breakfast, and soon enough
he runs out of stem, too, and is about to be clobbered ... when the man in
the white room presses another of the angel penisses, and Escargot Man's
neck grows to grotesque length, so he can head-butt his opponent who's
several feet away. Unfortunately, the man in the white room presses the
exact same angel penis a few more times, and so Escargot Man headbutts
everyone around him, including the referee, his tagteam partner and his
son ... The man in the white room figures he can climb up to the top of
the room on the angel penisses, where there might be an exit, and with any
penis he touches, he causes something in the outside world, may this be
small occurences (like the opening of a flower) or things that made the
news (like the shoe-throwing attack on George W.Bush). Eventually, the
man makes it all the way to the top - only to find a very big angel penis
... Somehow, you might occasionally be reminded of films like Cube
or Saw when watching Shinboru,
but essentially, this film - and you might have guessed that from my
synopsis - is pure madness, madness in a surreal sort of way. And it's
also hilarious, especially due to its totally absurd premise and its total
refusal to deliver any explanation at all for the on-screen goings-on -
and due to the fact that the gags that are thrown into the film are all
really funny. Add to this a relatively subtle directorial effort and a
central performance by director Matsumoto Hitoshi himself that manages to
remain this side of obnoxious throughout, and you're left with a pretty
amusing film. Recommended.
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