Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

R

2003

1h 48m

Mystery & Thriller

Action

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Owing money to a bizarre group of gangsters, a thief (Tadanobu Asano) goes on the run with a woman (Sie Kohinata) who is eluding her uncle.

Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

07/06/2023

a vibrant Tarantino-esque clusterf*ck whose fugitive unpredictability plays out Toshiko’s self-summation: “I ran away – I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

04/23/2003

Comes across like an overextended music video that would leave even Madonna drooling.

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

04/18/2003

2/4

The funky title of this Japanese yakuza bloodletting is, alas, better than the film itself.

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Pieter-Jan Van Haecke

Psychocinematography

06/02/2023

A blast from start to finish.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

04/23/2023

7.5

“Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl” is a truly great movie, one that will definitely appeal to fans of Tsukamoto, Miike, Sono, Toyoda etc, and a reminder of how unique Japanese cinema used to be.

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David Sterritt

Christian Science Monitor

06/05/2003

2/4

The movie is visually impressive, but Ishii's virtuoso style can't overcome the flatness of the comic-book story he's telling.

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Cees T

@RT15093300 3d

Great menu music (by Kihochi Mori?), but the movie looks like it was filmed with the same potato the plot was written on. "Crazy mob runaways." Watch Pulp Fiction and The Matrix instead. 0.4/10 - Dull even at 1.85x speed.

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Gabe M

@RT52684389 04/03/2024

This is a - straight to video, a sub genre in japanese media. Not to say sub quality, but think of it more as independent film. in that sub genre, this is a deep cut. one of my favorite hidden gems. Tadanobu Asano is great and easily carries the narrative through the psycho charcuterie of characters, Tadanobu Asano always picks interesting eccentric roles in his earlier career. Most of the side characters are acting heavy weights in there own right as well. If you enjoyed this Directors style then check out Survive Style 5 as well. this is one of my absolute favorite films

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07/08/2013

I let my friend borrow this movie and he's kept it since 2004. I am upset.

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04/12/2013

A lot of thought went into the characters, and the plot is more complex than the average film. The problem is, there are only a few moments when anything you see on screen connects emotionally to you.

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07/27/2012

(***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] A very strange and entertaining movie that is in the same vein as Takashi Miike's craziest works.

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06/06/2012

Great title, lame film.

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Synopsis

Owing money to a bizarre group of gangsters, a thief (Tadanobu Asano) goes on the run with a woman (Sie Kohinata) who is eluding her uncle.

Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Producer: Kazuto Takida, Hiroyuki Iijima, Katsuaki Takemoto
Screenwriter: Katsuhito Ishii, Minetaro Mochizuki
Production Co: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
Rating: R (Brief Language|Violence|Sexuality)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 16, 2003, Original
Runtime: 1h 48m