Sharkskin Man & Peach Hip Girl

This movies is just fabulous, can't realy discribe it, but...it's an action movie and it's hilarious, it has some classic scenes in my opinion for Japanese Cinema.AND it stars Tadanobu Asano who we know as Kakihara from "Ichi The Killer", he's one of my favorite Japanese actors...I think he's my favorite Japanese :)

Here's some info:

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An outrageous contemporary Japanese genre-mongrel, Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl combines sentimental Yakuza gangster machismo with the fatalistic romance of the road movie and the deadpan irreverence of vanguard Asian action cinema. Director Katsuhito Ishii pulls out all the stops in re-imagining Minetaro Mochizuki's popular Manga comic book for the screen, creating an avalanche of giddily graphic violence and a melee of offbeat gun-crazy characters.

Distracted by the sight of a handsome, nearly naked man sprinting across a winding mountain road, Toshiko (Shie Kohinata) inadvertently interrupts a mob execution by crashing her car into a limo full of eccentric assassins. Fresh from a frenzied ménage à trois, Belmondo-cool Samehada (Tadanobu Asano; Taboo, Ichii the Killer) seduces Toshiko into a life-or-death race with an army of mob killers joined by a moon-walking, love-struck amateur hit man dispatched by Toshiko's depraved uncle.

From the Yakuza assassins' color-coordinated guns to the shadow-dappled forests in which the film is set, Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl bursts with an urgently hypnotic collision of wild styles and flights of visual imagination.

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Before Tadanobu Asano was Kakihara (Ichi The Killer) or Dragon-Eye Morrison (Electric Dragon 80.000 V), he played Samehada (Shark Skin), a shady character on the run from five cars full of Yakuza in the mountains of Japan. After stealing ¥100M from them, he's managed to stay half-a-step ahead without much effort or care when he runs into Momojiri AKA Peach Hip (Sie Kohinata), herself newly on the run from her extremely creepy uncle (Youhachi Shimada). Yes, it's another "On-The-Run-From-The-Mob" movie, but the film's plot isn't as important as its cast of eccentric characters. Besides Shark Skin and Peach Hip, we also have a white-haired punk with an uncanny sense of smell, a hitman with a fetish for knives and laquered advertisments, and a completely over-the-top mouse-voiced assassin with as many sexual issues as the man who hires him (the creepy uncle). As a matter of fact, there's not a normal character here, and the exercise is to throw them together, add some conversation and firearms, and see what happens.
I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that most of the characters die by the end in frequently sudden ways. All this occurs between quiet events which push the plot towards more violence or punctuate everyone's oddness (though Shark Skin and Peach Hip seem damn normal in comparison to everyone else). From Shark Skin's semi-naked, post-coital run from the mob at to a meeting with his chair-collecting friend who provides new clothes and passports to the climactic scene in the creepy uncle's hotel and surrounding forest, there isn't much to think about. If you wanted to, I'm sure you could come up with all sorts of deep subtexts here. Is all this a clever post-modern commentary on modern day Japan? No, it's an excuse to be cool and have fun with guns, narrative, and direction. Like a lot of movies, overanalyzing the film will tarnish it. It's not art, exactly.
The story can be broken down like so: Peach Hip runs away, meets up with Shark Skin, they make a brief attempt at fleeing the country, and eventually have to confront their pursuers. Yes, of course there's more to the plot, but that's the gist. To pad it out to 105 minutes, then, what you have is a lot of disconnected narrative—most especially between the odd collection of Yakuza. They talk about some past jobs, try to remember the name of a book on yoga (there's a fairly twisted reason why they're trying to remember it), talk about a funny thing one has in common with a cop, all the while displaying a very clear and deep understanding of their pecking order. There are also flashbacks, a flash-forward, brief dream sequences and long quiet camera shots. A few conventions are broken: Shark Skin isn't desperately trying to escape the mob but is refreshingly confident and cool about the whole thing. Also, the mouse-voiced assassin the uncle hires ends up being a fairly unique character, and there are a few moments that simply don't play out according to the rules of movie predictability. And, an open ending is punctuated by a few scenes that wrap up a seemingly insignificant aspect of the story with great charm.
Sound plays a big role as well. It frequently becomes isolated to freeze the scene like an aural slow-motion, and is countered by the effective use of a good soundtrack. Like most of the directorial touches there's nothing really innovative about it, but it's effective nonetheless. As a matter of fact, from the semi-animated opening credit sequence to an effectively edited gun battle in a hotel lobby, there's nothing particularly innovative about this movie at all, yet it all hangs together in a very entertaining—and perversely fresh—way.
Most things in this movie point to first-time director Katsuhito Ishii playing with a Crayola box of techniques. Luckily it works, and luckily he had a group of actors that could pull off the eccentricities of the characters and story. Along with the always excellent Tadanobu Asano, veteran actor Ittoku Kishibe plays a nicely understated knife-throwing hitman, and Sie Kohinata as Peach Hip and Youhachi Shimada as her uncle put in solid performances as first (and, as yet, only) time actors. All in all, this is a very enjoyable and cool movie with a director and actors who are obviously having fun with the material. Not every scene is a success, or every exchange of dialogue clever, but there's a whole lot here to recommend.

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Cop that shit and watch it, it's worth y'r money and it's a keeper :)