Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976) Dir Kinji Fukasaku

Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)

Dir: Kinji Fukasaku, same guy who did Battle Royale and a ton of other stuff.

Cup Noodles: She made beans!

Pretty girls showing their boobs! Check!

Now the brother is after him!

Naked girl in fur coat:  Lady cop with pink garter belt!

Arguably the greatest role for a 1966 Prince Skyline 1500 Deluxe until the advent of video games!

Brasil, day after tomorrow: Rob another bank!

Weird and brutally unexpected homosexual love-hotel rape scene: Check!

One of the great chaotic movie chase scenes: What if Frank Bullitt quit the S.F.P.D. and joined the Keystone Kops?! What if Buddy Hackett and Johnathan Winters flew off the road while filming It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!, and landed in the middle of an Osaka Bank Robbery?! Roving news teams, irate citizens, motorcycle gangs, cop-on-cop violence, and our rape victim in a red Trans Am!:  All is lost for our heroic couple! But wait!!!

Lots of handheld camera work.

Slapstick-Noir Rom-Com: This movie made me so happy – it wasn’t what I was expecting when I first started watching. I love it when I’m eyeballing a flick and thinking, “B+,” and then the whole thing explodes and takes off.

[spoil] Don’t worry, there are banks in Brasil![/spoil]