Survive Style 5+
Five loosely interlinked dollops of gonzo storytelling is the offer in Survive Style 5+. They are all, to an extent, stories of surviving, and there are five of them, so that more or less explains the title. The + could be a reference to the second half of the movie, when things take a turn tonally. It might not. It’s that kind of film. After opening credits that are a frantic display of prime colours and might be described as titles genius Saul Bass seeing God on a mescaline binge, director Gen Sekiguchi gets down to business with his five stories, told in the order 1, 2, 4, 5, 3. Number one is … Read more