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Rating: 6.7/10 (504 votes)
Runtime: 55 min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Color: Black and White
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276935/
Director: Sogo Ishii
Cast:
Tadanobu Asano ... Dragon Eye Morrison
Masakatsu Funaki ... Narrator (voice)
Masatoshi Nagase ... Thunderbolt Buddha
Description: Basically, the story revolves around two outcast freaks-of-nature: firstly, Tadanobu Asano's character, "Dragon Eye" Jim Morrison (not the dead one - remember, he was the Lizard King, not the Electric Dragon, although considering how closely linked the nature of Asano's role is with lizards, you do have to wonder how tongue-in-cheek Ishii was about giving the character that name), who is a young punk with a troubled history of violence. He was overdosed with electro-shock therapy throughout most of his life to try and eliminate his crazed animalistic tendencies, the effect of which has unfortunately charged his body up with 80,000 volts of electricity instead.In fact, he's so electrically-challenged that he even has to ground himself before bolting himself onto his bed at night. His only outlets for his violent frustrations are his home-built guitar, and his collection of pet lizards. Believe it or not, "Dragon Eye" Jim Morrison is definitely meant to be the hero of this movie, an idea displayed clearly by the fact that he doesn't interact or interfere with anyone at all outside of his job, which is looking for lost pet lizards on the streets of Tokyo.
Masatoshi Nagase's character, The Thunderbolt Buddha, is slightly more well-adjusted (which, honestly, isn't saying much) and yet somehow infinitely more devious and evil, and he is accordingly cast as the anti-hero of the story. Due to an accident he had as a little boy when he was struck by lightning whilst climbing a pylon, he got somehow charged up with 20 million volts of electricity, and entirely half of his body has had to be encased in metal, to earth him. The interesting thing about this is that not only is he divided into two halves physically - the metal and the flesh, very reminiscent of Tetsuo in that manner - his mind is also divided into two halves, which are constantly in schizophrenic battle with each other. In fact, one half wants him to destroy himself completely, while the other half wants him to live.For no apparent good reason, Thunderbolt Buddha decides to pick a fight with "Dragon Eye", and begins a pretty major plan of provocation attacks, to wind him up to a point where he'll come looking for him. My own theory on the reason for this is that possibly poor old "Dragon Eye"'s nightly screaming electrical discharges of electricity are messing with the frequencies of Thunderbolt Buddha's own electrically-charged body, and therefore the situation has come down to the bottom line of "This town ain't big enough for two Electric Dragons charged up to the eyeballs with a gazillion volts of electricity". And so, for whatever reason, the entire film is pretty much just one long build-up to a gargantuan, climactic, lightning-fuelled fight to the death.
Beautiful on the eyes, exciting, totally silly and deliriously funny, and with some of the very, very loudest - and worst - guitar solos your eardrums will ever have the misfortune to be assaulted with, massive explosions, flying sparks, anarchic humour, krackling lightning bolts and a humoungously climactic electrical punch-up, Electric Dragon 80000V is a totally essential and enjoyable movie - given its death-or-glory, anarcho-avant-art, balls-out nature, you'll either love its brand of lunacy, or you'll hate its pointless stupidity. Either way, we recommend it most mightily. Fast, frenetic, funny and stylish madness.
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