Crazy Lips (2000)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Fresh and Exciting

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Blistering performances.

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 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.

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.

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.