meteoraxv "WTF did I just watch??" was the only thing that went through my mind when the credits started to roll.This movie is messed up in all kinds of ways. An amateur mess of different genres. It just jerks from supernatural to horror to comedy to musical to violence to drama to WTF?? I tried hard to get a general concept of the plot. But there really isn't one at all. It's not worth mentioning the plot because the story is loose, messed up, messy, just not a plot at all.This movie isn't weird, or even so bad it's funny, it's just plain bad. Maybe that was the goal of the makers, because apparently the project was sold to a Chinese company, who told them what kind of film to make, and so the makers decided to mess up the movie, just to tick off the Chinese company.I didn't really enjoy sitting through the length of this movie. I've read a lot of reviews prior to watching this film, telling me that it's just a really weird, disturbing, messed up movie. Not really. It was just plain bad. I expected a bit more. 3*

BA_Harrison When Michio Kurahashi is suspected of being a serial killer and goes on the run, his pretty sister Satomi hires a psychic in a desperate bid to prove his innocence. And precisely what happens after that is anyone's guess...I usually jot down notes whilst watching a film to help make life easier for me when it comes to writing a comment, but about half an hour into Crazy Lips I put down my pen and paper, for accurately summarising the plot to this insane movie was clearly going to be impossible and all the scribbling in the world wouldn't help me to express my feelings about it.So I'm going to wing it, sans notation; bear with me...In a world where most mainstream cinema has become dull and predictable, I can always find time for the completely demented and bizarre, and Crazy Lips is just that—a depraved, off-the-wall piece of Japanese cinema that defies simple categorisation. Supernatural horror, mystery, music, soft porn, and martial arts are combined by director Hirohisa Sasakito to produce a messed up piece of work reminiscent of movie maverick Takashi Miike's offbeat output, only one lacking that director's unique narrative skills, sense of style and intelligence.But although Sasaki might not be a real threat to Miike when it comes to confrontational cinema (Takashi still holds the title 'King of Japanese Weirdness' for producing monumentally effed up movies like Visitor Q and Fudoh), Crazy Lips is still the only film I have ever seen to feature the wandering spirits of decapitated girls, a pair of FBI agents who keep an eye on proceedings through the screen of a television set, a scalping during intercourse, and a woman being forcefully double teamed by an evil psychic's assistant and a hanging corpse with a hard-on.All of which must surely count for something.

wjohanb Crazy Lips is a thoroughly enjoyable and bizarre flick, where I really had no idea what was coming next, and often was enthralled by new hilarious or thrilling twists and turns. But, in the end, I found myself simply feeling ill, for the basic reason that 4 out of the 5 female characters in the film are raped, in the traditional anime style of,"wait, are those sounds of pain and trauma or are the girls getting off on this"? Among all the gleefull gross and inventive gags, this repeating aspect simply disturbed me. I understand that to take anything of this movie and treat it seriously is rather silly, but I was bothered by the rapes presented as such. Anal rape! Ha ha ha! It just didn't sit well with me, and made it difficult to enjoy the rest of the flick. I'm not so narrow minded as to think that these scenes will inspire people to rape young girls in the ass as they are forced onto the erection of a dying hanging man, but the gratuitous shots of the young girls sweaty chest, her sounds of pain and anguish slowly turning into gasps of excitement and pleasure as she is (with overt squelching noises) violated from in front and behind represent a disturbing attitude that rape, such a violent and tragic reality, isn't really that bad; that girls might even like it, or deserve it. Certainly others have been able to enjoy the movie despite these scenes, and one could easily say that I'm being hypocritical, as I have no qualms about the violence and torture in the film being presented humorously. Maybe so, but I have yet to find any aspect of rape, no matter how cartoonishly or ridiculously it is presented, entertaining. There is a very real social stigma about rape, in America, Japan, and everywhere else. It is a brutal reality that is perpetrated on women and children and men as well every day across the globe, and it is also the least reported crime in the world. Such a very brutal and destructive crime perhaps should merely be treated with respect for the victims, not exploitation, no matter how harmlessly intended.

whatdoes1know 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.