A punk rocker leaves her son with her ex-husband and begins an unusual odyssey through Tokyo's underbelly. Each person she meets is stranger than the last, with each encounter more disturbing.
Quotes:
"Is there r...展开eally any movie that can "change your life" by seeing it? Well, I don't know. Maybe not. But there are certainly movies that are able to shift your interests in totally new directions. Carnival of the Night did exactly this for me."
tubesoda's Comments:
"If my opinion amounts to anything around here, let me take this opportunity to say that Carnival in the Night is mandatory viewing for anyone with even a passing interest in underground Japanese film. This is likely the best film from underappreciated director Masashi Yamamoto, who is probably best-known for Junk Food (1997). Yamamoto was part of the close-knit scene of late-70s/early-80s "punk" filmmaking in Japan, along with Yoshihiko Matsui, Sogo Ishii, and a few others. He was also a music producer for bands like the psychedelic-funk new-wave JAGATARA. Musicians from punk/new-wave bands along with the associated scenesters largely made up the cast of actors for Carnival in the Night, more or less playing themselves in a pseudo-documentary style similar to some Susumu Hani films, but with a more anarchic sensibility. The resulting film is nihilistic as fuck, and more genuinely "punk rock" than anything even Sogo Ishii directed."