Xu Ke, whether it is his director or the supervising film works, are full of strange and strange styles, and the "Demon Beast City" that I want to talk about today is rare even in Xu Laowei's many strange movies.
Hark
The film was born in the early 1990s, when there was a wave of manga adaptations in Hong Kong, and many Japanese manga were adapted into movies, such as "Li Wang", which impressed us, and Jackie Chan's "City Hunter".
"Force King"
City Hunter
The adaptation of "Monster City" is even more bizarre, the original book of this movie is actually a novel, made into an animation in 1987 by the director of "Vampire Hunter D" Kawajiri Yoshiaki,
Monster City cartoon
The film version of "Demon Beast City", produced by Xu Ke and directed by Mak Dajie, and produced by Li Ming, Li Jiaxin, Zhong Dai Daya, Jacky Cheung, Zhang Yaoyang, Li Ruotong, Yuan Heping and Ye Shan Reiko, was released in Hong Kong in 1992.
Monster City
At the beginning of the film, it is a beautiful picture, in a wind and moon place somewhere in Tokyo, Dawn played by Aaron and Perry played by Reiko Hayama are engaged in a pun dialogue, wearing black silk Perry's real name is Perrier, which is now commonly known as Perrier, Aaron said: I am afraid that the more I drink, the more thirsty I am, not only to advertise Perrier Water, but also full of ambiguity.
Perry is not a person, but a demon beast woman, the two of them are trying each other in language and body, in fact, they all know each other in their hearts that the other party is acting, just as the so-called I know that you know that I am acting, but still want to act to show you, when the two embrace each other, the demon beast woman is exposed, with tentacles entangled Aaron wants to bite him, Aaron pulls out a gun to fight back, and when the two are fighting, Jacky Cheung's Ah Qiang appears and completely ends the identity of the demon beast girl.d'.
This opening location is set in Tokyo, which is also a tribute to the Original Japanese work, and the spider shape of the demon girl full of cult style also sets the tone of the film's style, and also gives the tacit cooperation between Dawn and Jacky Cheung, the two male gods.
The camera returns to the Hong Kong territory, it turns out that Aaron (Dawn) and Ah Qiang (Jacky Cheung) are affiliated with an anti-demon organization, usually disguised as white-collar workers wearing suits and ties carrying briefcases to work, in private, they are actually swat police officers who protect humans from the threat of alien creatures, which is basically the same setting as the Hollywood movie "Men in Black".
Back at the headquarters, when talking with Captain Jiashan, played by Yuan Heping, an important setting in the film was introduced, that is, the drug named "Happy" from the demon beast, "Happiness" can be understood as "Vigorous", the so-called Vigorous Miracle, human beings will greatly improve their physical skills after taking Vigorous, but once they are interrupted, they will evaporate and die.
Ah Qiang is a mixture of human and demon beasts, and recently there are suspected ghosts within the organization, so Ah Qiang is rejected by Captain Jiashan and no longer entrusted with heavy responsibilities.
Captain Jiashan played by Yuan Heping
Li Jiaxin played by the phantom Ji from time to time appeared in Aaron's memories, three years ago a hunting demon beast mission let the two meet, Aaron at that time not only let go of the phantom Ji, but also developed the phantom Ji into his own informant, the emotional development between Aaron and phantom Ji can be described as inexplicable, can only say that handsome men and beautiful women meet, sparks are the inevitable result, not to mention the "most beautiful Hong Kong sister" Li Jiaxin is really too beautiful, this movie in addition to looking at the five-cent special effects, Li Jiaxin's beauty is another biggest point of view, The director seems to understand this very well, using a variety of tricky angles to shoot Li Jiaxin's body, and through plot design, the fantasy ji in the film is often unclothed.
Then, the chairman of a large local group, Moto Ōmune, held a birthday party, and Motodai was played by Japanese celebrity actor Tatsuya Nakayo, who participated in a number of Kurosawa films, such as "Seven Samurai", "Shadow Samurai", and "Chaos". Zhongdai Daya was personally invited by Xu Ke by phone, because he had seen Xu Ke's "Heroic Nature" and "Qiannu Ghost" before, and Zhongdai Daya admired Xu Ke's talent very much, so he agreed freely.
Nakadai Tatsuya plays Yuan Dazong
Yuan Dazong is ostensibly the boss of the company, but in fact he is the boss of the demon beast industry, and at the beginning of the film, he is portrayed as a big villain, but through the later reversal, it is learned that he is the active promoter who hopes that the demon beast and humans can live in peace, and the real villain is actually his son, the ghost Zhongdao played by Zhang Yaoyang.
Ghosts and ghosts
Ghost Zhongdao is the most evil character in the whole film, he is full of foul language, he can't walk when he sees beautiful women, not only is the desire in that aspect strong, he also has an unusual desire for power, he can't wait for the old man to abdicate, he wants to directly seize the throne, and even thinks about his stepmother Fantasy Ji, the concept of Ghost Zhongdao is completely different from his father, he wants to completely conquer mankind.
One of the ways to conquer humans is to use the power, he gives Fan Ji a strong force, let it be at her mercy, not only occupies her body, but also dominates her soul, he assigns Fan Ji to smear poison on her lips to assassinate Ah Long, but Fan Ji finally found out in his conscience, took out the antidote and wanted to give Ah Long to take it, but Ah Qiang arrived in time, thinking that the so-called antidote of Fan Ji was also poison, and he wanted Fan Ji to swallow the antidote first to show his innocence, and he did not think that the antidote given to her by the Ghost Ji Dao was also poison.
Both poisoned Aaron and Phantom Ji are rescued by the Organization.
On the other hand, A Qiang and Li Ruotong played by Violet developed an ambiguous relationship, Li Ruotong's real name is Li Huixian, originally a flight attendant, in the film can also be seen that her figure is really excellent, in the film wearing a tight backless dress, suspected of being in the vacuum, playing a demon beast detective in this film, and Li Jiaxin played by the phantom Ji can be described as a double flower. And her stage name Li Ruotong is exactly what Xu Ke gave him, the word "Tong" represents red, indicating red and fiery, and the word "If" has a looming oriental feminine feeling. Although Li Ruotong is the female number two who does not have much role in "Demon Beast City", it can also be regarded as the first time she appeared on camera to amaze everyone.
Violet is discovered by Ah Qiang during a secret investigation, it turns out that she is the inner ghost of the organization, and she is driven by financial interests to help the ghost Zhongdao transport the five tons to Hong Kong. In front of the organization, Violet instead sued the evil person first, taking advantage of the defect of Ah Qiang's demon mixed blood to bite back, saying that Ah Qiang was the inner ghost, causing Ah Qiang to embark on the road of escape.
The final duel takes place at the Bank of China Tower, a landmark building in Hong Kong, where the villain Ghost Dao opens the big move "Demon Closed Space" to freeze all the humans in the city and time stops. After learning that the ghosts not only want to usurp the throne but also provoke a war with humans, Yuan Dazong is also on the side of humans, Yuan Dazong controls the plane back and forth between the buildings, the special effects here now look quite crude, but presumably the audience 30 years ago should feel very amazing.
In the end, the people of the Demon Beast Realm all began to transform, the Ghost Dao became the Octopus Man, Ah Qiang became the Lizard Man, and the Phantom Ji was evaporating because of the deactivation of the hermetic body.
After being abandoned by both humans and demon beasts, Ah Qiang used what little humanity he had left to lose all his blood to Fan Ji, saving Fan Ji's life and sacrificing himself. Ah Qiang can be described as the richest character painted in a full moment, and Jacky Cheung interprets the entanglement of that character and the state of being betrayed by his girlfriend and finally suppressing his animality very well.
In the end, with the concerted efforts of Aaron, the organization and Yuan Dazong, the ghost path was destroyed.
Yuan Dazong was seriously injured
Yuan Dazong was seriously injured and eventually died in the car where he and Fan Ji were far away, and Fan Ji shed a tear in the corner of his eye, drove the car, and drove away from the city, and the sun rose in the distance as usual.
End of the film.
From the current point of view, this movie is completely a bad film, the plot development is inexplicable, the character transformation and the emotional changes between the characters are unforeseen, it is a movie with a bunch of settings and five special effects.
However, this film is still worth watching several times, why, because Li Jiaxin in this film is really too beautiful, just 20 years old Li Jiaxin, in the film a touch of red lips, one will be a beautiful fairy style beauty, one will be a fierce long-haired demon beast, one will be in the rain and dawn affectionate embrace, one will be forcibly kissed and fallen by the beast crow brother, one will be super-powerful flying in the air to kill the enemy, one will be tender like water dripping tears with rain pear blossoms, the film can be said to be Li Jiaxin's beauty collection album, Li Jiaxin also contributed the boldest scale of her career in this film, although some of the shots are used as stand-ins, but also without delay in showing her all-round beauty.
In addition to Li Jiaxin, Dawn, Jacky Cheung, Li Ruotong, are also at the peak of their appearance, and Dawn wears black-rimmed glasses and holds a gun is really handsome and cute.
Jacky Cheung is also a pair of gold wire glasses Sven Wen in the early stage of the film, which is more than a few points more exquisite than the crow brother he played in "Carmen of Mong Kok" a few years ago, and Li Ruotong's first appearance in the movie is also amazing.
I have to sigh that Xu Laowei's vision of selecting actresses is really poisonous.
Bye.