Urufu gai: Moero ôkami-otoko (1975)

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Sonny Chiba is a journalist with wolf powers in Wolf Guy (AKA Wolf Guy: Enraged Lycanthrope), but that's really secondary to the story until the third act in this schizophrenic crimesploitation flick. It looks and sounds gorgeous though (give or take those weird electronic sounds meant to denote disturbia), with its grainy 70s look and wild guitars. Very tangentially connected to the manga-turned-earlier-movie about a high school werewolf, we might imagine a similar character as an adult, coming across strange murders committed by an invisible tiger. Investigating the curse, our coin-throwing hero will meet various under and overworld figures because this one goes right to the top! It'S gory, it's full of gratuitous nudity, our boy's animal magnetism gets all the girls to fall for him, Shaft-style... but whoa that plot! Plots, plural?! Don't get me wrong, I love how bananas this thing is - it's gonna be fun throwing a synopsis into conversation - but the structure is off-putting. Things aren't established in a normal way (including the lycanthropy), so it feels like you've been thrown into the middle of a franchise, or like it's one of those TV show compendiums. 3 years ago